Word: howl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warpath. Colonel Soglo, 54, who has spent most of his adult years as a professional soldier in the French army, included his friend Maga in the interim government as Foreign Minister. He is trying hard to balance his government between the unions, which still howl for Maga's complete removal, and the northern Bariba tribesmen, who are on the warpath to win Maga's complete reinstatement. Though massive French aid helped the new nations in the area to achieve a measure of economic progress and political stability, Dahomey and the other former French colonies are now threatened with...
...Danger. Incredibly, the Haitians scoffed at the warnings. The chief of the Haitian Red Cross went on the radio, angrily denying all danger. The next voice heard was the banshee howl of Flora. By now, the winds had accelerated to 140 m.p.h. Savagely, Flora cut a 75-mile gash across Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula, denuding the mountaintops, reducing scores of villages to rubble, and carving great rivers of red clay that stained offshore waters crimson three miles out. Radio monitors in Miami heard an unidentified operator report "terrible damage." Then he was blown off the air. Within Haiti...
...York City sentimentalists raised such a howl last week that authorities did not know how to get rid of the birds without losing the pigeon-fancier vote. To trap and kill the birds, they would probably need an amendment to the state conservation law. A few do-it-yourselfers were reported baiting the pigeons with corn, then clubbing them to death with baseball bats. A more scientific and humane though admittedly long-range remedy was proposed by an ornithologist: let the city feed the pigeons all they will eat, but have the corn treated with chemicals that will make...
Across the whole valley, the federal presence has created the most economically and racially stable section of Alabama. A few months ago, for example, Huntsville desegregated its eating places with hardly a segregationist howl to be heard...
Last spring, the residents of Codman Square let out a howl of protest at the prospect of MTA facilities in their neighborhood. Spearheading the organized resistance was Sen. Kenneally of Dorchester, who introduced a bill in the Massachusetts Senate prohibiting the MTA from locating repair facilities within 1000 yards of a hospital...