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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes a special kind of courage on the part of the impromptu social workers who man the camp to win either the confidence or the compliance of these child gangsters. Threatened with a knifing by a Wolf, good, kindly Eric holds out both hands and is viciously slashed, after which the boy throws the knife at Eric's feet and collapses wailing to the ground. What enables the staff to go on is the knowledge that the children have been more sinned against than sinning. There is the little boy who has never been heard to utter a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...month is arrayed the biggest, bawdiest, bestselling collection of stag magazines in publishing history. Just as Confidential's peep-and-tell formula sent a horde of imitators yipping after pay dirt, the sex-fueled three-year flight of Playboy ("Entertainment for Men") has shaken out a pack of wolf-whistling periodicals. In all, there are more than 40 playkids on the market, and they are fast outstripping the scandal sheets. The most successful of the upstarts are monthlies, with such names as Caper, Nugget, Rogue, Escapade and Cabaret. Like Playboy ( TIME, Sept. 24), they trade in the smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Playkids | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...vagueness of the report made many legislators join those who might have had something to gain by discrediting it--South Boston's Sen. John Powers said that it made him "retch inside"--and strengthened the charge that the Commission was merely crying wolf. Opposition to the report also weakened the effect of its positive conclusions about police laxity, the newspapers' cooperation, and occasional political collusion with gamblers...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: Crimebusters | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

Although the match score indicates an easy victory, several of the individual contests were quite close. Tim Gallwey, Denny Briggs, Dave Scott and Al Wolf, at first, third, fifth and sixth singles respectively, all had tough fights before pulling out victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team To Face B.U. Here Today | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

...doubles, Snow and Ewart (M) defeated Alan Wolf and Blackmer (H), 6-4, 6-4; Keyes and Humphreys (H) defeated Lake and Moffett (M), 6-4, 5-7, 6-1; and Alec Bancroft and Pete Rient (H) won in straight sets over Weld and Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman 'B' Tennis Team Loses | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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