Word: lone-wolf
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...included in the evangelical and reconstruction program (though represented at last week's convention): Japan's lone-wolf Catholics and Episcopalians. They stubbornly resisted the Government's efforts for a wartime merger of Christian churches, and are continuing to go their own way in peace...
When the vote came, it was an anticlimax. Only North Dakota's lone-wolf William Langer and Minnesota's tall, grey Henrik Shipstead voted against it. The ayes: 35 Republicans, 53 Democrats and one Progressive. For a historic step there was no cheering, no demonstration. The gallery crowd went away quietly...
While Tito's conglomerate Croats, Slovenes and Serbs fought on, whatever forces remained to the lone-wolf Serb, General Mihailovich, were inactive somewhere in the interior. In Cairo, the coterie around exiled King Peter suggested that the Allies would yet thank Mihailovich for conserving his forces, holding his punch until invasion comes...
...newspaper footage and parlor statesmanship as "What Will Russia Do?" Actually, Russia's basic policy is not ambiguous or mysterious: it is merely alternative. Russia is in a position to choose: 1) full collaboration with the U.S. and Great Britain if they meet her demands; or 2) a lone-wolf course, excluding the U.S.'and Britain, but including an arrangement for and with a pro-Russian Germany. The problems are not simple. Among the many specific lines of force swirling about the conference are these...
...obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend of which even the surer facts have been concealed, exaggerated, distorted, hushed up by shocked relatives or embroidered by starry-eyed admirers of his relations with famed Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine...