Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild tropical storm the steward slips overboard, the ship yaws blindly past Panama City, finally comes to a desperate, forced landing in a South American jungle. One prop is bent, one motor dead, the radio transmitter out, but nobody is hurt...
HARVARD--Healey and Johns drew walks. Gannett's short single to left loaded the sacks. Grondahl flied to left and Healey scored when Holt's threw hopped over Schroeder's head into the Yale dugout. Wood's wild pitch cleaned the bases, Johns and Gannett tallying. Lupien popped to short and Hoye fanned. One hit, three runs...
HARVARD--Grondahl struck out. Lupien singled to right. Lupien stole second and went to third on Schroeder's wild heave. Hoye sent Lupien across with a single to right. Tully and Fulton flied out. Two hits, one run, one error...
...forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers and their dense delta tangles, survivors of the South's once great game supply-wild fowl, deer, turkeys-still abound, now enjoyed by rich Yankees who have bought up the old plantations...
...Cooper project in court & out. They lost. Traditionalists argued that some of South Carolina's most historic spots would go under water. They were ignored. Naturalists deplored upsetting Nature's balance by making fresh the brackish waters of the Cooper basin, teeming with life from shellfish to wild geese. For so protesting, Archibald Rutledge was censured by the State Senate, but the lower house saved him his honorary title of State Poet Laureate...