Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first his colleagues in the Cabinet bitterly attacked Van Hemelrijck for his lone-wolf gamble, but since at this delicate moment in Congo affairs Belgium does not wish to appear divided, he got their grudging approval. When a Member of Parliament asked the Premier whether Van Hemelrijck had given advance notice to the Cabinet, Eyskens answered: "No, but the minister has such heavy responsibilities that he must be free to make quick decisions...
...major questions dealt with the Berlin crisis. "One, not to allow ourselves to get thrown off balance, to get frightened, to get hysterical about the thing; but on the other hand, don't be so indifferent that we are certain that it's just a cry of wolf...
...test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
...least six Democrats of the 82 new House members listed their wives on the payroll. Vermont's William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year. Others, notably Iowa's Democratic Leonard Wolf, are more generous: wife Marilyn Wolf collects $13.344.62 a year -an amount, by curious coincidence, that is the exact maximum permitted for any one congressional staffer...
...Representatives and sent to the Senate last week: a four-year extension of the military draft, strongly backed by the Eisenhower Administration and the House Democratic and Republican leadership. A serious attempt to limit the extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf did not demand. His explanation...