Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire nation was headed towards Apocalypse and Newt Gingrich, long barbed tail protruding from a Brooks Brothers suit, one hand grasping a pitchfork, the other gesticulating in rhythm with his wild invective, was greeting us at the pit of hell. And then, as quickly as it had come, the vision was gone. Nervously, I assured myself that I had let my mind exaggerate the case...
...legal injunction and taking enforcement into their own hands. In the past two weeks special Prop 187 hot lines in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento have received thousands of calls from distraught victims reporting impromptu acts of discrimination that recalled the vigilante spirit of the old Wild West. Many of the callers were citizens or legal residents, wrongly suspected of being illegal. "No one has the word undocumented tattooed on their forehead," said Juanita Ontiveros of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. "So people are being harassed because of looks, language and mannerisms...
Once again we've come to the time of year when you don't want to be a turkey. Those glory days of turkey-hood have long ago passed, sad to say. Back in the 1780s, the wild turkey almost became our national symbol; now it's just a symbol of ridicule and distilled spirits...
...happened, the wild turkey was deemed just too ugly and pedestrian to represent our nation. Even at Harvard, this view persists. You don't see the "Turkey Club" along with the Phoenix, Owl and Porcellian. (At the same time, they don't call the Porcellian the "Ham Sandwich.") What stands the boring, nocturnal owl above the turkey? Why do those musty 'old-barn' men prefer "oink" to "gobble...
...living at Lauderdale Courts, he had a record on the radio. Nothing about icy fingers this time. That's All Right, Mama was a butane-bright and street-nasty version of an old blues number by Arthur ("Big Boy") Crudup; the flip side, Blue Moon of Kentucky, was a wild and beautiful version of a bluegrass waltz popularized by the country star Bill Monroe in 1946. No one had ever heard anything quite like...