Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreadfully hot in the tiny village of Sahneh on the road from Teheran to Baghdad and Damascus. Around the solitary gasoline station and several inns, truck-driver counterparts of Scheherezade's cameleers slept in the open, and townspeople flung wide their doors. About i a.m. a gaunt wolf swept down from the mountains like an Assyrian on the fold and attacked sleeping Sahneh. The beast loped lightly over the low mud walls and slashed at sleeping villagers around the scattered huts on the out skirts. The wolf went for the head, as is the way of wolves...
...countryside came to life with urgent Iranian cries and the lighting of torches, the wolf raced into the village proper. By dawn there were 16 more victims. At last, the animal was killed by a peasant armed with a mattock...
...Acid Test. Though it seemed incredible on that hot night 18 months ago, the beast was performing probably wolf's greatest service to man since the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus. The wolf of Sahneh was rabid, and his appearance was just what a World Health Organization team had been waiting for. If it gets a chance to develop, rabies is invariably fatal. Ever since the days of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), doctors have been able to head off rabies with a series of 14 to 21 vaccinations, but the treatment is costly, painful-and sometimes fatal...
Walt Disney happily has moved in for the weekend at the U.T. The African Lion will growl at Peter and the Wolf and The Emporer Penguine. Fred McMurray thinks he has everyone At Gunpoint, but he won't have you if you enter...
...were busy, as they usually are during any national crisis, taking care of their nation's animals. Rangers toured Wimbledon Common in a pony cart passing out food to wild birds. A fireman risked his life on the ice of a lake at Stanmore to save an Alsatian wolf dog that had fallen through. An R.A.F. helicopter winged its way across Suffolk to rescue icebound swans, and a Mrs. Phyllis Buckle, 57, of London did her bit by carrying 6 Ibs. of corn, two loaves of bread and a hot-water bottle to the pigeons huddling in Trafalgar Square...