Word: howle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & early on Thanksgiving morn, as usual, the poor man's hunting season got its start in North Carolina. Short-legged, flop-eared beagles sniffed into brush-piles and thickets, set up a howl when they flushed a rabbit, worked it back before the hunters' guns. Some wistful old rabbit hunters were willing to settle just for the music of the hounds' high-pitched cry; others set their mouths for rabbit stew. The guns blazed away...
...courtroom, the case of the fatal charmer Neville George Clevely Heath was handled with typical British dispatch. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang, all within three days. Now the British press could set up a-long-suppressed howl...
There had not been such a howl from the bleachers since Fred ("Bonehead") Merkle failed to touch second base...
Soon the Dresden press began to howl that her dances were un-Nordic. Wigman moved on to Leipzig, was still dancing a little, teaching a little, when the Russians found her. Russian reporters interviewed her and respectfully printed her opinions on the dance, but obviously still preferred their own graceful classic ballet to Wigman's somewhat gymnastic, angular and austere style. Russian authorities readily gave her permission to go on lecture tours and to reopen her school. The time has come, she announced last week, to start building the great, warming fire...
There was a shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...