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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middlesex Superior Court justice could overturn the council's actions Thursday, however. School committee candidate Alice Wolf filed suit last week seeking an injunction against enforcement of the sign ordinance, claiming it unconstitutionally denied freedom of speech to Cambridge residents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Will Keep Enforcing Ban on Political Posters | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...Signs are stupid," City Councilor David A. Wylie added. "They convey less information than practically any other form of advertising." Wylie eventually voted for an end to the ban, however, saying that case law supported Wolf's claim that the ban was unconstitutional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Will Keep Enforcing Ban on Political Posters | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

...almost all other respects, however, this newest Peter Pan is faultless, and trib utes have to be paid both to those who labored on this production and to those who worked on the original. Perhaps special credit should go, however, to Peter Wolf, who designed three of the most sumptuous sets to be seen on Broadway, and to Peter and Garry Foy, who supervised the flying sequences. Under their direction, flying seems not only effortless, but fun. In one spectacular moment at the end, Duncan even soars over the balcony, an extra delight for those who stay for the curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Remembrances Of Things Past | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...your phonetic rendering of woof ticket, the pronunciation is correct, but rather than being a "wolf ticket (meaning a challenge to fight), it is a "woof ticket (meaning a bluff). One often hears the term woofin' to mean that someone is in a sense barking, not yet committed to bite. Thus an inferior athletic team "sells woof tickets," trying to psych out its opponents. The superior team, confident of its ability, "buys all woof tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1979 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...expose the student to conventional language, the teacher should not rob the black student of his right to articulate in a manner in which he is most able to express himself. We will lose a culture if we do this -"and I ain't just sellin' wolf tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1979 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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