Word: howling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets outside the embassy, crowds massed each day to howl for the heads of Carter and the Shah. Within the compound the militants settled in for a long occupation, hectoring foreign reporters at press conferences and making a point of hauling garbage wrapped in an American flag. It seemed that they had not decided what to do with the hostages. Simply hold them? Shoot them? Or, as they threatened more often as the days went by, try them as spies...
Several students were setting off firecrackers in the quad at the stroke of midnight in part of the Quad's midnight "howl celebration" to begin exam period...
...Arkansas, the questions being raised about the Titan accident were much more parochial and intense. Cleburne County Judge Dan Verser asked at a hearing at Little Rock Air Force Base whether he should worry when warning lights flash and sirens howl at a Titan silo near his farm in Heber Springs, 25 miles east of Damascus. Colonel John Moser, commander of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing at Little Rock, replied that "99 times out of 100" the warnings are caused by equipment failure and "there is no need to evacuate until you're told to evacuate." Moser was quickly...
Wolves used to slaver a lot. They hung around outside European villages to gobble up grandmothers. They trailed troikas across the frozen steppes, waiting for some tender Muscovite to be tossed their way. They howled through the Canadian wilderness on the heels of succulent trappers lost in the snow. All that has changed. Now wolves are seen as benign and useful citizens of the ecosystem. They protect nature's delicate balance by keeping down those troublesome caribou herds and even practice birth control. Wolves do still howl, of course, but, as Michael Fox reassuringly points out, this is often...
...pains to avoid killing one another. Within the pack this takes the form of ritual challenge and acts of subservience, plus carefully pursued systems of personal rights. In external affairs, packs keep to their own turf. When they hunt near the border of another pack's range, they howl out early warning systems so there will be no inadvertent confrontation. And they leave buffer zones between territories, not merely to keep the peace, but to provide safety areas where deer are allowed to breed...