Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newfoundland you can start an argument over confederation with Canada faster than you can say Annieopsquotch.* Independent Newfoundlanders voted against becoming a Canadian province in 1869, sang political ditties like "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf," stubbornly snowed under every party that proposed confederation...
Mighty Hunter. On the plains of Manitoba, the sickly youth grew to be a young giant. His normal walking pace was a killing five miles an hour. Then, on the high plains of New Mexico, he became a celebrated wolf hunter-in the tradition of one of his ancestors, Evan Cameron, whom he called "The mighty wolf hunter of the North." His first popular books (Wild Animals I Have Known and The Biography of a Grizzly) sold hundreds of thousands of copies among captivated readers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...third game he finally bunted an easy roller down the third base line-and wound up, grinning and a little ashamed of himself, on first base. The bunt set off the mightiest roar heard in Fenway Park-and St. Louis modified its radical "Williams" defense. But Lone Wolf Williams might have to do a lot of talking before the Red Sox or any other team pays him the $80,000 he wants in 1917. Said Babe Ruth, the only baseballer ever to get $80,000 in one season: "A great hitter must be able to hit to all fields...
...Class of 1945: Emanuel Jacob Abrams, John Barnes 3d, Roger Joseph Donahue, John Lowell Gardner, William James McAuliffe Jr., Manton Bradley Metcalf 3d, James Greenbury Nuland, George Spires Pappagianis, Harold Warren Schnaper, Sundel Lazarus Shir, Walter James Whelan, William Harold Wolf...
Nevertheless, other delegates to the 18-nation Economic & Social Council (called ECOSOC* for short) found Feonov an easier man to deal with than such wolf-eating lambs as Molotov, Vishinsky and Gromyko. Feonov actually promoted shirtsleeved sessions in smoke-filled hotel rooms in an effort to break impasses on the council floor. But he could not break the bonds of Russian policy...