Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rotarians let them down. Staid, stout and respectable, they ignored the hotspots, loosed not a wolf whistle. Festooned with cameras and shopping bags, they took the funicular to Sugar Loaf mountain, gazed at the Christ of Corcovado, swarmed into the curio shops to buy butterfly trays and carved knickknacks...
...paraded down the aisle surrounded by policemen. His once-black hair is long, marcelled by a beauty parlor and bleached an improbable pale blond. By theatrical standards, his act is too broadly conceived and overplayed-but it goes well in a sports arena. Men jeer him with catcalls and wolf-whistles. When a woman fan heckles him, he retorts acidly: "I told you not to come down tonight, Mother...
Last month T.W.A. told the Civil Aeronautics Board that it would be "unable to continue" unless it got more mail pay. Nothing happened. Last week T.W.A. cried wolf again, much more urgently...
Three days later, help came from CAB. It granted T.W.A. a 110% boost in its foreign mail pay to $6,300,000 a year, retroactive to Jan. i. T.W.A. thus got $1,100,000, exactly what it needed to shoo the wolf away. But T.W.A. was in such bad shape that this was no guarantee that the wolf would stay shooed for long...
...chested, black-browed and bespectacled, with thinning grey hair brushed carefully across a high-domed head. He dresses meticulously, wears custom-made blue or grey suits (his wife chooses the cloth), recently adopted a diplomat's Homburg. No backslapper, he is well-liked but something of a lone wolf in the Senate cloakrooms. In private he is amiable, with a quick, irreverent wit. When speaking he uses a sweeping sidearm gesture like a baseball pitcher's, rolls out his rounded, often eloquent periods in full, organlike tones...