Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the boy who cried "Wolf!" Guinea's Marxist President Sékou Touré has called for help in fighting off invasions or coups so many times that people scarcely listen to him any more. Once it was a cabal of teachers and trade unionists from within Guinea. Another time it was a plot against Guinea launched by Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a longtime Touré enemy. There was an authentic assassination attempt by a knife-wielding Guinean in 1969, but the young fanatic bungled the job, and was lynched...
...market the ore starting next year. But most hotels in Conakry normally do not serve lunch, for the simple reason that there is not enough food. At least 600,000 Guineans have fled into exile, many to neighboring countries. That alone is enough to make a ruler cry wolf every now and then...
...Upper Peninsula, a snowmobiling club planned a fox hunt in which the winner would get to crush the panting beast under his treads (the event was squashed by public outrage). Other drivers play a game called "spooking." The object is to chase a terrified deer (or coyote, wolf or moose) until it drops. Debilitated by winter cold, the animal often dies of exhaustion or pneumonia...
...awakens and stumbles sleepily to the door. "I have to see you, Mr. Sherman," cries a pair of plaintive Brooklyn adenoids outside. "We make it a rule not to open the door after midnight," Felix answers. "We?" says the voice. Felix's tape recorder emits several terrifying growls. "Wolf and I. Wolf is a Doberman pinscher." The small voice tells him: "As God is my judge, I am a little girl all alone here in the hallway...
...fire has swept through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. It is the buxom neighbor he has reported to the building superintendent for prostitution. "Hello, pansy!" shrieks Doris (Barbra Streisand). "Hello, fink! Fink pansy! You rat! You fruitcake! Rat fink fruitcake! Creeps as yourself don't have dogs named Wolf. What creeps like you have are little faggy hairy bitty things with names like Pooky and Doodoo...