Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly two years Turk Westerling had been a fugitive from his own countrymen, and from the Indonesian Republic-wanted by both for homicide and other crimes committed in Indonesia after the islands won their independence from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold...
...same two artists had earlier presented seven songs by Hugo Wolf. No world-shaking masterpieces, the songs are interesting examples of what Wolf believed the lied should be--a union of the voice and the piano. This he achieved at the expense of the melodic line, and the result is frequently more important dramatically than musically...
...almost constitutionally unable to resist friends or acquaintances who plead for her time or her help. When the late Serge Koussevitsky urged her to do a recorded version of the musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf, she hesitated only long enough to be sure he was serious before hustling obediently off to Tanglewood to synchronize herself with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...lone wolf, though," he said, "don't come to us," for interrelating the products of research requires joint work by specialists in many different fields...
Three months ago, Dr. Ersner drilled through the bony obstructions and put a rubber tube through both nostrils so that scar tissue would not close them again. Even with this partial relief, her food tasted so much better that Andrea began to eat like a wolf and gained nine pounds. Last week Dr. Ersner took the tube out, and Andrea went on a smelling binge, running from food smells to her mother's perfume bottles...