Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deliberate German choice, but it is a choice made from weakness. It is similar to the German choice not to press the U-boat war. The Germans still have many U-boats. Some day, perhaps when the second front is launched, they will be thrown in as a wolf pack, exceeding in size any that has ever struck before. But the undersea war has become so tough for the Germans that they have had to limit operations sharply in order to preserve their U-boat fleet...
...Examples (curtailed or closed for the duration): Harvard's Wolf School; Yale's Milford; Princeton's Hun; Washington, D.C.'s Roudybush Foreign Service School, which crams many candidates for U.S. posts; the New York State bar examination cram given for 29 years by famed Manhattan attorney Harold R. Medina and taken by many graduates of the best U.S. law schools...
Last week one of Manhattan's leading Protestant clergymen added an interesting footnote to Bishop J. Francis A. Mclntyre's recent address in which he called anti-Semitism "a stuffed wolf" set up "by paid publicity agents" (TIME, March 20). In Metropolitan Church Life, weekly paper of the Greater New York Federation of Churches, General Secretary Robert W. Searle reported...
What Big Teeth You Have. With disarming modesty, Author Adler confesses that only recently has he begun to think about war and peace at all. But this is only mock modesty, the grandmother's cap which Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...
Last week Archbishop Spellman's chancellor, Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis A. McIntyre, contradicted his superior. Speaking at a Communion breakfast, Bishop Mclntyre denied there was any anti-Semitism worth mentioning. It was just "a stuffed wolf," set up "by paid publicity agents [who] by exaggerating the doodling's in chalk of children playing on the streets . . . conjured up out of their imaginations the phantom of anti-Semitic hate." The whole thing, he said, was "a manufactured movement," created "for the deliberate purpose of besmirching the minority Catholic population...