Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the Harvard community can only enrich the atmosphere for those who are here for a few short years to improve their minds. Thank you, President Bok, for realizing this and working toward a more just, cooperative workplace. Moira Dolan Alumni Records, Holyoke Center Kaye Wild Class Report Office
...have golfers chipped in from off the green on the final hole to win major tournaments. Both times, at the 1986 P.G.A. Championship and the 1987 Masters, Norman was the victim. He has placed second in two other majors, losing the 1986 Masters to Jack Nicklaus because of a wild 4-iron on the very last hole. Despite Olympian skills and what Nicklaus calls "virtually unlimited potential," Greg Norman has only one major-tournament victory under his belt; the Golden Bear, Nicklaus, has tucked away a record 18. Norman at age 33 is golf...
...from one kookiness to the next as the candidate not only professed he was (like all the Republicans) opposed to abortion, but argued that we are committing genocide against ourselves by depriving America of all the wages unborn babies would be earning in the 21st century. He also made wild claims about offensive missiles remaining in Cuba. He finally became a laughingstock when he suggested that Bush's people had engineered the Jimmy Swaggart sex scandal to damage his campaign...
...living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf den and, most astonishingly, accompany the pack during hunts. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Mech and Brandenburg went back the next year with a film crew to give...
...recent years, however, a growing body of literature, notably Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men and R.D. Lawrence's In Praise of Wolves, has tried to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation. But specialists have been forced to study shy wild animals from a distance. No one actually lived with a wild-wolf pack and returned with photographs to prove it until Mech and Brandenburg traveled to Ellesmere...