Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squanto, the Indian who acted as interpreter for the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, had learned some of his English in Newfoundland. *Since 1869 a song with the defiant punch line "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf!" had become an unofficial national anthem of Newfoundland...
...novel is set in these troubled waters. His hero is the skipper of one of the "suicide" tugs that stole out virtually unarmed (in the early days of the war, Britain had no guns to spare), to rescue disabled stragglers of the convoys from the prowling wolf packs of the German undersea fleet. The U-boats sometimes let the lame ducks stay afloat in order to get a shot at the tugboats...
...week's end, Jimmy and his three companions were scheduled for return to Detroit and the civilization they love. Wolf-fancier Smits was disappointed. Said he: "Dogs go wild readily, but these wolves were just too tame...
...Riding Hood learned, you can never tell about a wolf. Just as their guardians were about to give up, Jimmy, another male and a female took bravely to the timber. The fourth, an effete female prophetically named Lady, refused to accompany them. Smits explained Lady's behavior: "Wolves are much more individualistic than dogs, and females are much shyer than males...
...phrases. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin. Between arias, he amuses himself by watching for a pretty girl to come in, then gives a long, deliberate wolf whistle. If the girl's escort looks angrily around, Coco screams with laughter...