Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in early April, warning that "we have every reason to believe the Indian policy pronouncement connotes a giant step toward fully operationalizing nuclear policy." The State Department dismisses the letter as crying wolf and files it in the false-alarm drawer. By then, India's preparations are well under way. Scientists and engineers have been moving in small groups from their laboratories to the desert testing site in Rajasthan. They travel by rail, switching trains in mid-journey and using false names...
Oldest candidates for delisting or downlisting: bald eagle, gray wolf, Aleutian Canada goose, Columbian white-tailed deer, Hawaiian hawk and Pahrump poolfish, all listed since March...
Thanks to successful protection, the Interior Department is proposing to "delist or downlist" some two dozen species on the Endangered and Threatened Species List, including, clockwise, the bald eagle, gray wolf, brown pelican and Aleutian Canada goose. So will the list get shorter? Don't bet on it. Our breakdown of the list...
There was no doubt at all in T.R.'s leaping mind which would be the world's next superpower. Less than five years before, he had stormed San Juan Heights in Cuba and felt what he described as the "wolf rising in the heart"--that primal lust for victory and power that drives all conquerors. "Our place...is and must be with the nations that have left indelibly their impress on the centuries!" he shouted in San Francisco...
...greatest fear is of chemical attack, a strike by an enemy they cannot see. The closer to the front, the more raw the nerves. mres, or Meals, Ready to Eat, are the soldiers' most accessible enemy. Everyone hates them. Egyptian soldiers refused them. Only ravenous Iraqi prisoners of war wolf them down--including the chewing gum. When the milk runs out, there is pineapple drink to pour on the cornflakes...