Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed, winning primaries will not necessarily win the nomination for Kefauver. If he won enough of them, he would be hard to contend with. But his fellow U.S. Senators (who look upon him as an upstart), most regular organization Democrats (who regard him as a tricky lone wolf) and Southern Democrats (who consider him a Southern apostate) do not want to give the nomination to the Senator from Tennessee. If not Stevenson and not Kefauver, then...
...genius tear its hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...
Within a day 27 of the wolf's 29 victims were trucked into Teheran (the two others straggled in days later). They were promptly bled, so that any antibodies against rabies could be detected, and divided into five groups. Of the 18 bitten on the head, five got two shots of serum, four days apart, plus vaccine, six got one shot of serum plus vaccine, and five got vaccine alone. Of those bitten less severely elsewhere on the body, four got serum (one shot) plus vaccine, and six got vaccine only...
Special treatment was given to three, notably the most hideously bitten victim of all: Golam Khazayi, a boy of six, who had bites on the head too numerous to count. The wolf's massive jaws had chomped right through his skull, and the teeth, piercing the dura mater (parchment-like covering) had dripped rabies virus directly into the brain. Golam already had contracted meningitis through the head wounds. He got penicillin as well as a special course of serum every two days, plus vaccine...
...bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch to the hangings. Gusts of fire sweep the room. Amid shouts, pistol shots and clouds of alcoholic smoke, Caroline legs it from the lodge, with Michael in hot pursuit, "howling like a wolf." Too late! Caroline has won again...