Word: howling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker's father was a gentle, good-humored laborer who liked booze and died at 33. They laid him out in the living room. Russell was five. The Depression began to howl. His mother took him and a sister to live with relatives in Newark and later in Baltimore. The world became a gray hell of treeless streets and schoolyard bullies. But Baker had a platoon of entertaining uncles. There was Uncle Hal the blowhard, who turned up en route he said, to a major business deal involving "a forest full of walnut of the finest, rarest quality...
...major threat to livestock, arguing that most of the reported kills are probably the work of coyotes. They also fear that even a limited hunt will disrupt the intricate social structure of wolf packs and cause unpredictable predatory behavior. More than a dozen environmental groups, including one called HOWL (for Help Our Wolves Live), say they will sue the Federal Government if it lets Minnesota declare an open season on wolves...
...nature of the Thursday assault. If a negotiated settlement was almost at hand, why were the Israelis attacking with such ferocity? Why did they find it necessary to strafe apartment buildings and boulevards? The jets were flying so low that their markings were clearly visible, their noise a deafening howl. On the ground, Western correspondents wondered if the Israeli military was about to raze the entire city...
...Southerner's Southerner, a good ole boy on a howl whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind. Yet he lived in Cincinnati until he was nine, headed at 17 to Brown University in the Ivy League to study ancient Greek culture, and has since sailed and socialized with the privileged around the world...
...others, an appropriately short anthology of the wisdom of derek C Bok, and an official explanation of "What is Radcliffe" will be skipped over by all but the most ardent high scholars, and those who do read them will get what they deserve. The final new essay is a howl. Written by none other than Associate Dean of Freshmen, W.C. Burriss Young '55 and entitled "Sage Warnings to Freshmen," it brims over with advice on everything form food fights ("So cut it out") to fire alarms in the Union ("When you hear one go off, get outside. It is better...