Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trio of Wolf, Frost, and Bartnick make a backfield that can't easily be topped," said Stahl. He also complimented the Freshman members of the Varsity, who he said Stahl. He also complimented the Freshman members of the Varsity, who he said were good, though they "have a lot to learn...
Meanwhile a mysterious fact about the problem emerged from the mountains of testimony heaped before the long-suffering Small Business Committee last week: though for more than a year one war agency after another has wept and cried "Wolf" about how many little men were about to fold up because of the war, so far the agencies set up to "save" small business have shown much less staying power than their proteges. All the experts had to admit last week that no one yet knew the score on "business mortality," but what little they did know made it seem little...
...real trouble here is that-from the standpoint of total war-the U.S. would have been better off if more of the wolf-crying had turned out to be true. For the continued existence of many peacetime businesses, the painfully slow death of those that are really doomed, is almost a dead loss to the U.S. war potential. It is wasteful of man-hours, of management, of materials and of machinery-for scrap if not for production...
Sept. 14-A submarine wolf-pack attacked. Escorting warships scattered to cover the area with depth charges. Apparently some found targets, because debris, even green vegetables, came boiling to the surface. Twice waves of bombers concentrated on the British aircraft carrier, but protecting warships ganged up, drove them off with casualties...
...Ample proof that 1942's term of "wolf" for a determined satyr is not new. Wrote a visitor to White Sulphur in the 1830s: "Unless you be young and foolish, fond of noise and nonsense, frolic and fun, wine and wassail, sleepless nights and days of headache, avoid Wolf...