Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early inhabitants-predominantly Semites-got little chance to enjoy the oil and honey. Around 2000 B.C. they were conquered by Hammurabi, the great lawgiver of Babylon; later their homeland was a perennial battleground for the Hittites and the Egyptians. Then Sennacherib the Assyrian "came down like the wolf on the fold," to be followed over the centuries by Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians, Alexander the Great and, finally, in 64 B.C., Pompey...
...voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says with creaks and squeaks in his voice, his sad, pale eyes playing out of a square, pinkish face...
Sneaky Killers. The fastest growing part of the nuclear Navy is the submarine service, which has a soulmate affinity for nuclear power. With two nuclear submarines (Nautilus and Sea Wolf) in commission, 17 more* are abuilding or authorized, and more will be ordered when the Navy gets the money. They will be of many types, from small, sneaky "killers" that lie in wait for enemy subs, to missile launchers that can attack an enemy homeland from...
...marriage" in the Schönbrunn Palace galleries with a little boy prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was only 14 when her mother and Louis XV sealed their Franco-Austrian alliance by giving her in marriage to the French Dauphin. "Has she any bosom?" asked the aging wolf Louis XV of the emissary who helped arrange the marriage. "Sire, I did not take the liberty of carrying my eyes so far," replied the courtier. "You are a fool," laughed the monarch. "It's the first thing one looks at in a woman...
Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder; Allied Artists) suggests that the Big Bad Wolf can be devoured by Little Red Ridinghood-provided she plays her cad right. Romancer Claude Anet's 1924 novel Ariane, transplanted in the movie from Moscow to Paris, originally fascinated a generation of French schoolgirls, inspiring them to daydreams of enticing worldly seducers into marriage beds. A German film version (1931) with Elisabeth Bergner as its cunning heroine sent many a lovelorn Mädchen into similar transports...