Word: wildness
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...good to contribute to our country but bring [misery] for one and all." It's not just one plot, however. There are countless being hatched, some surreptitious, others gleefully open, and not a few that are trial balloons filled with nothing but gas. That has spawned a host of wild rumors, often spread in text messages?"GMA will declare martial law on or before June 21 ... Stock up on water and groceries"?and a confusion that could eventually prove truly dangerous. The spurious warnings that the sky is falling mask the fact that Arroyo does indeed have lots of enemies...
...road directions to the headquarters of the Loretta Lynn International Fan Club were the sort the skeptical traveler longs for: clear, fail-safe. East out of Denver to Limon. south out of Limon to Wild Horse, left on Road 9 and right on Road Y. Road Y, explained Loudilla Johnson, co-president of the club along with her sisters Loretta and Kay, "doesn't go anywhere but here...
Fear of the elements soon passed, however, as talk in the cheerful kitchen turned on family reminiscences. The Johnsons moved from the Texas Panhandle to this not dissimilar ground in 1948. Until then, Mack had held a lot of jobs to cobble together his grubstake. He moved to Wild Horse to raise wheat and rear five children. He and his wife were headed toward divorce. One son would grow up to farm on his own: the other would throw in with his dad. The three daughters would chart a course that would keep them close by yet broaden them through...
...obliterate the shuttle. "The orbiter itself seemed to float, very briefly, above the fireball of exploding hydrogen and oxygen," said one member of the shuttle inquiry panel. He was reminded of the way a bubble survives a cascade over Niagara Falls, "so fragile, yet with all that wild energy around it." Says a National Transportation Safety Board investigator: "The crew compartment was pressurized and sealed tight and welded into a kind of cocoon or bubble that may have suffered relatively little damage, briefly riding the top of that fire ball." Nonetheless, a pathology expert sent to examine the astronauts' remains...
...When the fifth game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep fly that missed being a home run by a distance too slight...