Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was mighty strange stuff to be going to the President of the U.S. In one of the four boxes there was "a red fox Skin Containing a Magpie." In another "the bones & Skeleton of a Small burrowing wolf." A third contained a tin box of "insects mice...
...Does this mean that every top executive ... is a lecherous old wolf? ... Of course it doesn't. Your graduates will be perfectly safe . . . But it does mean that your intelligent, attractive girl will have a well-paid job till she marries . . . Your lovely looker will move into a stuffy tycoon's office and unstuff the stuffy...
Soprano Schwarzkopf chose her favorite form, German lieder, and, from the time she first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf's Kennst Du das Land. She could soar high into the flute altitudes with the same rich quality that she used in her cello-like middle register. Before her program was half over, the audience was convinced; by the end, it was shouting its approval...
...succession of girls in their teens and 205 who stayed there and left rapt testimonials. Samples: "I was his Empress and the Hights was our Empire," "Joaquin was such a wonderful lover." Fearing for his own women relatives, Ambrose Bierce wrote down an emphatic promise: "If that woolly wolf, Joaquin Miller, doesn't keep outside the fold, I shall come down and club him soundly...
...prospect of hydrogen warfare, and he is right. But here again there is a large gap between knowledge and panic; Americans have in the past absorbed defense education without falling into blinding fear. The administration has perhaps dwelt too long on the fable of the boy who cried wolf without reason and needlessly alarmed his neighbors. It would be well to consider also the boy who saw the wolf but neglected to cry out; he was devoured quickly and silently...