Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carter Higgins, chairman of the Worces ter Red Cross chapter, said dourly: "We can't condone the National's ineptness in public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...
...from many sources. Possibly there was a need for the alarmist cries a few years ago, when the danger of reckless investigations had just become apparent. But too often the cries have turned to cliches; instead of pointing to danger, they minimize it by their tired aspect of "cry wolf...
...downgraded to duchess from her real-life position of Princess Massimo. Aramis has been changed from an ex-seminarian to a scholarly type; Porthos has become only a fat man interested in food, and Athos has shifted from the melancholy husband of Madame de Winter to a clothes-conscious wolf. Explains Lerner: "When we slant a fact, we always make sure we got a fact to start with...
...Arkansas gambling house, is probably rivaled only by Sid Richardson for the title of richest man in the U.S. Richardson figures that Hunt's production is higher, but that his own oil reserves are bigger (estimated at as high as 750 million bbls.). Hunt, a lone wolf who hardly knows the new Athenians, uses his oil wealth to spread his far-right views through such media as radio & TV's Facts Forum. He lives in a Texas version of Mount Vernon, i.e., bigger. ¶ Hugh Roy Cullen, 72, of Houston, is another far-right winger, but no friend...
...Mitchum, his ten-year-old son (Tommy Rettig) and Actress Monroe. In making the trek, Mitchum wrestles in turn with a mountain lion, a knife-wielding badman, several Indians, and Marilyn. She gives him by far the toughest scrap. Mitchum also plays a scene calculated to set up a wolf-call cacophony from one end of the nation to the other: he sternly tells a drenched Marilyn to get undressed, and then gives her a brisk rubdown while, the Monroe epidermis is covered only by a blanket...