Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best of All. By 1933 most people seemed to be singing Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, but a 20-year-old Indiana girl, mortally wounded in a shooting, asked to have Stardust played at her funeral. Three years later the record business was stirred almost as deeply, when RCA Victor dared to release the song on two sides of a pop single, one played by Benny Goodman, the other by Tommy Dorsey. It was Victor's best seller in 1936 and '38, was still going strong a year later...
That this attack produced no Big Red goals after the first five minutes was due largely to the efforts of Little, Beaver, and Fischer. Little, the left halfback, had to cover Cornell captain Wolf Preschel the outside right who has scored all the Big Red's goals this season. Little's aggressive tackling bottled up Preschel most of the afternoon and his technique of sliding to the ground to dislodge the ball from a forward's control was particularly effective...
...expanded. Weekday editions have been dressed up with an eye-catching, mint-green "third section" containing the features, sports and comics as part of a plan to compartmentalize the news for easier reading. By relying more heavily on wire-service coverage of top stories, e.g., last month's "wolf whistle" murder trial in Mississippi, the Trib has saved money, expanded features and local news coverage...
...high muzzle velocity but slight penetration-that he is witnessing not only an animated newspaper headline, but also a plain parable about human rights and the majesty of the patriarchal principle, which, from the day of the cave to the advent of the split-level, has kept the wolf from the door...
Arguing against coexistence, Samuel Scars warned that behind "the grandmotherly cap so recently put on by Mr. Bulganin, one might see the greedy eyes and sly smile of the wolf." An enthusiastic claque clapped loudly at this, encouraging general assent from the other listeners. As Scars went on, however, the organized cheering section became more and more lonely. When he cited authority for unmasking Soviet aggression, naming David Lawrence as "a fearless American writer," Scars was forced to pause until the laughter died...