Word: wildered
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...addition, experience serves as a frenzied bond to other human beings with whom it is shared. The wilder, the more outrageous the experience, the tighter the bond it Knits. Thus Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty become closer, we know, than any 9-5 office colleagues could dream...
...through the trial, over a hundred dinner tables, Darien parents kept protesting that Darien was no different from any other high-tax suburb on the flanks of a hundred other U.S. cities. But even to some of the inhabitants, Darien seemed wilder than most. In the weekly Darien Review, Episcopal Rector William C. Bartlett described the town as a place "where ninth-graders drink vodka on the school bus." Early this year an entrepreneur opened a teen-age nightclub that had dancing but only soft drinks. It failed. "The kids around here just won't go to a place...
...remembers how he went out of his way to alienate audiences, attacking TVA in Tennessee, medicare in front of Florida pensioners, and the President's anti-poverty campaign in the depressed, eleven-state Appalachian region. Now, as his prospects of election became dimmer and dim mer, he sounded wilder and wilder in his charges against the Johnson Administration...
...somewhat of an enigma, since today's game is their first of the young season. But word has filtered across the Charles that the Terriers do have a handful of outstanding players, led by left halfback Peter Wilder...
...talk to cockroaches," said Boyer with emphasis. Resisting every sort of pressure, he continued to ostracize the roach. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, who wrote the film, got so mad at him that-at cutting time-they chopped every Boyer line that they could possibly get rid of. "So he won't talk to cockroaches," said Wilder. "O.K. Then he won't talk to anybody...