Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in the auditorium there was a wolf howl. Then down the aisles, feet thumping the wooden floor, bounded five men. They dashed past rows of seated spectators, crossed the ten feet between front row and stage and jumped the four-foot parapet. One swung on Cole and sent him reeling onto the piano bench, which split under...
Manuel J. Cabral, Anthony T. Enders, Mark H. Feingold, John F. Grogan, Peng-Liu Mei, Bruce R. Parker, Peter A. Rayel, David T. Schwartz, Anthony J. Shafton, Christopher D. Stone, Donald E. Tingle, William A. Trebilcock, Mishael A. Wolf (captain), Gerald P. Kelly (manager...
...year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes (out of 214,000 cast). But regardless of the voters' verdict, the whispering campaign had been damaging...
...performance because it may coarsen their tone. (One contemporary tenor has refined this after learning by a process of trial and error that his voice is at its peak exactly three days after sexual intercourse.) Despite all his precautions, the tenor tends to feel himself hoarse as a wolf at curtain time, and often decides he has a cold. If he can be forced onto the stage, his natural ability will usually carry him through. If he cannot, a substitute must be found quickly. The tenors who confine their tenoritis backstage are more numerous than their brothers who become public...
...recent years, though many a Thing has landed on the movie screen, the Space it came from has always, all too obviously, been located between a scriptwriter's ears; and the science in the fiction has generally been of a sophomore sort that gives a loud wolf-whistle at the curvature of the universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that it's ether/or; and the literately preposterous...