Word: wolfed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...class Siberian gold-mine manager, possessed a bourgeois ambition that even the terrors of the October Revolution could not dampen. Harassed by almost incredible poverty after her husband's death (when Mitya was 16), she brought up her brood of three children with the tenacity of a she-wolf, worked her gnarled fingers to the bone to give them an unusual education despite collectivist hell & high water...
Rationing of woolens for civilians may not be necessary despite the year-long cries of "Wolf! Wolf!" Since the Truman Committee clamored for an inventory of Army textile stocks, the Quartermaster Corps decided last week to clamp a brake on its buying. For four months, beginning September, woolen mills will be permitted to cut their scheduled Army production by as much as 50%. (The Army orders are deferred to the first part...
...Jack gives his people attention by sympathetic personal chats ending with a pat on the back. There are no pats for absentees or latecomers. Jack & Heintz has no time clocks. Late workers are given a hell-raising reception, have to run the gantlet of their fellow workers' resounding wolf call. Result: workers are almost always on time, almost never absentees...
...doctors do almost anything to him. His was a peculiar schedule: with or without breakfast, as the doctors prescribed, he lay all morning on the examining table, sometimes napped; in the afternoons he tidied up the laboratory and ran errands. Human Gastric Function reports what happened when Drs. Wolf & Wolff plied and prodded Tom's stomach with whiskey, glass rods, hot & cold water, mustard, drugs, air pumps. The book is a minute record of his stomach's color, secretion and activity when Tom felt relaxed and secure, when he was full, hungry, worried or angry. Some of Wolf...
...petrolatum poultice. Atropine, which is often given to soothe ulcer sufferers, cut down Tom's mucus secretion. Therefore the doctors believe atropine should not be generally used for ulcers (except occasionally as a sedative), because the drug reduces the very protection the stomach most needs. Proper ulcer treatment, Wolf & Wolff conclude, "would involve the management of the personality disorder" causing the excited, ulcerated stomach...