Word: wildness
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...renowned historian Ambrose acknowledged that in his current best seller, The Wild Blue, he inappropriately lifted three passages of lines from a book called The Wings of Morning by Thomas Childers, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. In fact, The New York Times found that Ambrose kidnapped passages from other historians’ books in at least five other places...
Eventually there was a wild armed pursuit through the streets of Tulsa as the whites pushed the blacks back into Greenwood. The next morning thousands of whites, including Tulsa police and scores of newly deputized thugs, invaded the neighborhood, looted it house by house and set it afire. In all 1,256 houses burned, as well as churches, a junior high school, a hospital and most of the area's businesses. Estimates of the dead, both black and white, varied from 36 to 300. Black residents were marched at gunpoint out of Greenwood. Six thousand were penned...
...kind of wilderness man who will throw an old quilt his grandmother stuffed with genuine animal hair in the back of his vintage Ford pick-up (stick shift, ladies, not automatic) and drive you to a remote hilltop were you’ll feast on wild berries and jicama...
...just lovers, they are a family. One page of the spread shows them embarking on a clandestine, early morning walk, the sun streaming through their obviously new (but with a vintage feel kind of new) outfits. Another has them adoring their newborn child in a field of calf-high wild grass. Dusty probably helped Jane through the very natural delivery of their child in the bathing pond just 12 paces behind their home. Swaddled in a hand-knit, teeny-tiny sweater thing, wilderness baby—they’ll probably name him Leaf—will play with deer...
...too….this land was made for you and me (and little Leaf). Somewhere in the same part of my brain that enjoys watching Snow White sing “Someday My Prince Will Come,” there was a fleeting desire to romp through calf-high wild grass and drink stream water, dressed, of course, in the trendiest, worn brown leather boots and soft pastel peasant...