Word: wolfs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...built up the nation's largest independent cargo fleet (16 owned, 40 to 70 chartered vessels), beat out competitors by undercutting their rates, hiring tough, experienced captains (e.g., the Flying Enterprise's Henrik Kurt Carlsen), and sending his ships wherever profit beckoned. His lone-wolf ventures often provoked international incidents, State Department migraine; before and during the Korean...
According to the movie, the great love in Elizabeth's life was Thomas, Lord Seymour, lord high admiral of England. (According to some history books, Tom was an unprincipled wolf who tried to seduce the princess in order to maneuver his way toward the throne.) But there were complications: Seymour was already married-to Catherine Parr, widow of Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII. The movie makes further complications by picturing Ned Seymour, the Protector Somerset, as a villain plotting to rule England by force and terror instead of by the will of the people...
During the war, her husband went into uniform (he became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Force radio unit), and Ros was off on USO shows, telling jokes and singing Baby, That's a Wolf. In Washington, she met Mamie Eisenhower. They took an instant shine to each other: Mamie asked Ros to tea, and Ros asked Mamie to dinner. She did not meet the General until three years later...
Jones statement is analogous to the three little pigs telling the big bad wolf that they are not very tasty and asking him to spread that information throughout the forest. By the very nature of news, the present investigations show colleges as they are not--as Communist spy factories. For the papers that now scream headlines of "Reds in Colleges" will not so avidly print the information that some committee or other has found the great bulk of a Faculty guilty of nothing at all. Purveyors of news must always look for the unusual and ignore the commonplace. Jenner...
...object to flying in such weather? "I am eager to go. There's nothing more fascinating than the other side of the clouds; the far side is intensely beautiful." His philosophy? "I'll give you quite a chunk of my philosophy in just seven words: 'The wolf is always at the door.' There's no use killing any of them, because there is always another. I'm not complaining of him-he keeps us fit and even alive, if we are alert." His best period of writing: during the 1940 blitz on London, when...