Word: wolfs
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...weapons. For this it required the services of some 3,000 merchant ships, and in this summer of 1940, Admiral Karl Donitz's submarine fleet not only acquired access to the Atlantic at the captured French naval base in Lorient but also started a lethal new tactic known as wolf packs. Instead of one lone U-boat sniping at an Allied convoy, three or more subs would attack simultaneously from different directions. On the night of Sept. 21, for example, a wolf pack attacked a convoy of 41 ships and sank twelve; the following month, in two successive nights, wolf...
State-sponsored gambling is nowhere near the bonanza for states it has been sold as. Illinois and Ohio, among other states, have reduced tax-paid financing of schools as the lottery cash came in. "So," says James Smith, superintendent of the Wolf Branch School in Belleville, Ill., "the real benefit is zero." Less than zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie...
...United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral." Also: In 1929 the nation's economy "was revealed to be merely a paper tiger with feet of clay living in a straw house of cards that had cried 'wolf' once too often...
...more disturbing figure than Silber. No one is misled by Silber's politics; he is clearly a conservative autocrat. Unlike Bok, Silber is a wolf in wolf's clothing...
...stern sermons. "After almost any major operation, you feel worse before you convalesce. But you do not refuse the operation." That typical bit of Thatcher rhetoric is not the kind of metaphor that comes out of the Peggy Noonan poetical-presidential-puffery machine. Nor is it sheep-in- wolf's-clothing mock toughness on the order of "Read my lips, no new taxes." If leadership means leading people where they don't at first want to go, Margaret Thatcher is a leader; Ronald Reagan was not, nor is George Bush...