Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since 1917 in terms of world impact." Said Schlesinger: "It is plain that respect for the U.S. would be higher if we didn't just fumble around continuously and weren't half-apologetic about whatever we do. An image of weakness is going to elicit this kind of behavior. Wild as the Ayatullah seems to be, he would not dare to touch the Soviet embassy. The point is that the Soviets are in a position, and of a disposition, not to take such events lying down. The fact of the matter is, as Mr. Nixon used...
...wild and wooly tradition of THE GAME, the Elis lost the ball and a a golden scoring opportunity on a second-down handoff, when Crimson adjuster John Casto grabbed a loose pigskin to regain possession. The Yale defense stiffened, though, and Duke Millard had to punt from his own end zone when the Crimson stalled at the 9-yd. line...
Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...
...seven points and looked like it might turn the tame around. A Marzione-to-Montesanti three-yd. pass opened the fourth quarter with a third Quaker TD and closed the gap to 34-20. Penn failing on a two-point try. Two and a half minutes later, though, a wild Marzione lateral rolled through the arms of ten players before DeBello pounced on it and gave Harvard possession at the Penn...
Cross the wild and crazy humor of Steve Martin with the well-calculated mania of Carl Reiner and what do you get? A hyper hybrid movie called The Jerk. About a weirdo white raised by a poor black Southern family, who;hearing his first Lawrence Welk record, hits the road north to find his own kind of music. "All they played when I was a kid," explains Martin, a.k.a. the Jerk, "was blues." Martin mints a fortune by inventing nonslip eyeglasses, loses it when Reiner, in a walk-on as an irate consumer, brings a successful suit in behalf...