Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed there is usually an easy way to spot the unprepared, namely to ask a question and then see who begins rifling through their materials in a wild, desperate attempt to avoid making eye-contact. People frantically and aimlessly search through their notebooks as if the mysteries of the universe, let alone the answer to the question, could be found there. The look on their face is intent, as if they had just written an essay on that very question and if only they could find it buried deep in their cavernous backpack, they could address the issue. Their eyes...
That may explain why Pepper keeps pushing his wild-eyed theories, even after they have been shown to be fabrications. In his 1995 book, Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper claimed that a team of U.S. Army snipers was standing by in Memphis to shoot King if a Mafia hit man hired by the government had missed. Pepper wrote that army captain Billy Eidson, purported commander of the sniper team, could not be questioned because he had been murdered, presumably to assure his silence. Trouble is, Eidson is very much alive; he denies...
...grass, aided by preternaturally long hind legs and an outsize tail that helps stabilize it in flight. "There could be thousands out there, and there could be far fewer; we just don't know," concedes Fish and Wildlife biologist Peter Plage, who has rarely seen the rodent in the wild...
...When you're fighting for your life," Levine, 38, tells his class, "you've got to be as fast and as fierce as a wild animal. Your only goal is to save yourself using whatever you can and whatever...
...parental-abduction cases go, this is a wild one. But it ultimately has something in common with most others. In the end, there are no winners...