Word: wolfed
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...afternoon of the 29th was devoted to the final preparations for death. Hitler ordered that his favorite Alsatian wolf dog Blondi be poisoned; the other two dogs were shot. He gave capsules of poison to his two secretaries, presuming that they would want, as part of their jobs, to join in the imminent suicides (they did not). At 3:30 p.m. on April 30, Hitler and his new wife retired to the anteroom of his private suite and shut the door. Hitler put a cyanide pill between his teeth, then raised a Walther pistol to his temple and fired...
Welcome to the official beginning of a new era in baseball—the era of “Chemical McCarthyism,” the all-too-fitting moniker given to last weekend’s tension-filled testimony by Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Randy Wolf. Just as at the reactionary height of the Cold War, Congress has taken up an issue sure to arouse passions in an effort to gain a measure of publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize...
...does now; how to screen for travelers who may actually pose a risk; and how to divulge information about threats in ways that are useful and not gratuitously alarming. Implicitly criticizing his predecessor's handling of security alerts, Chertoff says wants to keep Americans alert but "guard against crying wolf...
...KEEP PEOPLE ALERT BUT NOT SCARED? We do want people to be alert and mindful but we don't want them to say, "My God, should I stop leading my daily life?" We have to guard against crying wolf. And I think that is why when we put details out, we should be more accurate about it. We want to explain our reasoning behind it so they don't feel we are either hyping something for no reason or that our practice seems kind of mysterious and obscure...
...plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf, associate legal director of the Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union...