Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving East. Actually, coyotes are on the march almost everywhere. Once concentrated almost entirely in the West, they have begun to turn up as far east as Maine, where they are replacing the larger but less intelligent wolf as a wildlife predator. On the Great Plains, coyotes are now so numerous-and so hated by sheep raisers-that the Government recently eased restrictions on the use of poisons to kill them. But the most striking evidence of the coyote's adaptability is its emergence in urban areas. Unlike other animals displaced by the growth of cities, says Donald Balser...
...played the risks with such consummate cool as Norway's Hilmar Reksten, 77. The tanker business seems always to swing from boom times of frantic demand and soaring charter rates to busts during which expensive tankers lie idle and unwanted. Reksten, a ramrod-straight six-footer and lone-wolf operator, started out as a shipping clerk; in 1929 he bought a freighter cheap, parlayed it into a modest fleet (thanks in part to two rich wives), then seized on slumps to buy up tonnage cut-rate. By 1973 he had amassed a flotilla worth, by some estimates, $600 million...
...Chinese have urged Japan to maintain security treaties with the U.S. Teng recently warned visiting President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines against Soviet expansion in Asia. The Vice Premier referred to the old Chinese proverb: "Guard against letting the tiger in through the back door while repelling the wolf through the front gate." Despite past Chinese propaganda denouncing the U.S. as a paper tiger, the reference in this case was clearly to a Russian tiger and an American wolf...
...Died. Wolf Ladejinsky, 76, Russian-born land reformer; in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Soviet and Asian farm policies, Ladejinsky was tapped by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 to draw up a land reform bill for occupied Japan. The legislation he drafted emancipated Japan's tenant farmers enabling millions of them to acquire title to their plots and toppling forever the base of Japanese feudalism...
...rational, immortal soul." To Hicks' own mind, the clues were all meant quite literally. In a sermon at Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, he explained that the traditional four humors common to all mankind can be symbolized by specific beasts: the melancholy humor by the gloomy and avaricious wolf, the sanguine by the lustful and volatile leopard, the phlegmatic by the lumbering bear, the choleric by the proud lion. In the Peaceable Kingdom, these beasts would be spiritually reborn and would He down in tranquillity with their domestic opposites: the lamb...