Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately the wilderness is far more fragile than it looks. The growing interest in backpacking has intensified traffic on some hiking trails, causing serious erosion. "These are environmentally concerned people," says Tom Wilson, an N.P.S. official. "They don't chop down trees or litter. But the mere fact that they're here can wear out trails. These are fragile ecosystems...
...chronicle of a baseball season spent roaming the country with the boys and the boys-turned-men who make up baseball. There is Walter O'Malley, cigar-puffing grandee of the Los Angeles Dodgers. And Stan Musial, of the .330 lifetime average and undying fame. Then there is Artie Wilson of the Negro Leagues, who outshone Jackie Robinson and won only mildly-regretted obscurity, and Early Wynn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who threw at the head of any batter who stood between him and his historic 300th career victory--including, in one exhibition, his own son. There are countless...
Professor Blum contended that as Wilson met the needs of his own personality, it led him to make statements rooted in illusion. Wilson, in the judgment of his chronicler, was at once the keeper of a rigid conscience and the creature of a political system that worked only when he bent that conscience to conform. Wilson found that the power of his office could carry him only so far. Then, the historian declared, the President either had to combine influence with compromise or, defending virtue, lose his way. Carter, "the missionary," travels a hazardous course...
...takes a great deal of trust. Consider some of the outlandish elements of the play: its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager, Lady Bracknell (Elizabeth Wilson), who is "a monster with out being a myth, its one young man, John Worthing (James Valentine), who invents a dissolute brother, and its other young man, Algernon Moncrieff (John Glover), who blithely proceeds to impersonate him. This is farce walking the tightrope of absurdity. But it is also farce at its most urbane - as insolently monocled in manner as it is killingly high-toned in language...
...South Carolina refused to fold in the final rematch. When Lewis ended the Allen jinx by striking him out in the first, and when Mookie Wilson, winner of the CWS Micky Rivers look-alike contest, sprinted and crashed into the centerfield wall to rob another Sun Devil of extra bases in the second, it was clear that Omaha had itself a ball game. A pair of unlikely heroes eventually decided things...