Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove...
...most daring and presumptuous thing about Wolf was his ambition to pour all of American experience through the filter of his own consciousness. All his novels are intensely autobiographical, self-centered as no other American writer has dared to be. And yet Wolfe claimed for them a universal relevance that no other American writer dared to claim...
...Crimson lineup: Snook, Harshman, g; Darrell, rf; Shafer, lt; Sparrow; rh; Gabler (capt.) eh; Hansen, lb; Welses, ro; Johnson, rt: Wogan, of; Wolf, H; Krogins, lo. Substitutes; Kosil, Elleanor, Knauth, Mathey, Halbert, Lee, Kempner, Goriton...
Freshman soccer lineup-Snook, g; Shafer, rf; Darrell, lf; Sparrow, rh; Gabler, ch; Hansen, lh; Houston, ro; Weiss, ri; Plissner, ch; Wolf or Johnson, li; Krogius or Gordon...
Such are the implications of Morison's new book, "The Battle of the Atlantic," volume one of a 13-tome history of the U.S. Navy's role in World War II. This pre-declaration-of-war phase was the battle of the convoy versus the undersea wolf, and Morison tells how close the wolves came to starving out their English prey...