Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...done no better in attempting to prove that Bayar and Menderes had arranged to have a bomb planted near Ataturk's birthplace in the Greek city of Salonica in order to incite anti-Greek riots in Turkey in support of Turkish claims to Cyprus. The bombing touched off wild disorder in Istanbul, in which 73 Greek churches were destroyed and 4,000 Greek shops looted, with the loss of a vast quantity of irreplaceable religious...
...Senator called the roll of Massachusetts' Democratic nominees who drew cheers that seemed mildly wild compared to Kennedy's ovation...
There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him. The more he campaigned, the more he seemed endowed with the same charisma that won and held popularity for Dwight Eisenhower. In appearance he is a slender man with a boyish face, an uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati...
...Changes are coming!" cried Singapore's fiery Lee Kuan Yew, 37, on the wild night last year when 80,000 supporters of his left-wing People's Action Party celebrated its sweep of the island's first general elections. Seventeen months have passed since Lee and his motley crowd of Chinese, Indian and Malay anti-colonialists took over the internal government of the famed imperial base. The most startling change last week seemed to be the change that has come over Singapore's revolutionary rulers...
...same issue as Time's critique of partisan columnists, it is doubly distasteful, Kennedy is portrayed as a vacillating politician getting by on looks: "There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him." The tired age question is dredged up again: "Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior...