Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most novel idea came from the Air Corps's Major General George Brett, who announced that Army planes would swoop in mass formation over struck plants, to show strikers "what they are working for." Congressman Dies, who has cried "Wolf!" so long & loud that he has almost turned public sympathy against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, croaked incessantly of Communists, demanded the purging from labor of all Reds. In Washington, an Army officer wagered even money that the first target of U. S. armed forces would not be enemy troops but U. S. citizens...
Humanizing of Kamala, the elder, was hindered by the death of Amala, whose wolf-ways were not so set. But like a dog, Kamala in time came to trust Mrs. Singh, whose hand always fed her. She became "a pathetic little subnormal, but clearly not idiotic, human being." Her accomplishments: a vocabulary of 50 words, interest in clothing (if it was red), ability to run simple errands and play with other children. Kamala died at 17, unmarried...
...rearing two children in a wolf den, fate performed an experiment which the maddest scientist would not dare. But sane Dr. Zingg is pleased with the valuable evidence that...
...environment is not everything. A wolf, or even an ape, reared in the Rev. Singh's orphanage would not attain a human personality...
...Around the case of a Hessian wolf-boy, French Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau wove his romantic theories on the virtues of "natural" man, thus helped to set off the American and French Revolutions. Thereafter stories of wild children became suspect as radical political propaganda...