Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Representatives, mostly Republicans, took the floor Monday afternoon to speak in favor of one in a session that rolled on until well past dawn on Tuesday. Many speakers associated the absence of prayer in schools with such social evils as drug abuse and sexual promiscuity. Virginia Republican Frank Wolf charged dramatically that the rate of teen-age suicides "began to climb at approximately the same time that the schools were withdrawn from prayer two decades ago." House Democratic leaders, anxious to do nothing that might stigmatize their party as antireligious, stood aside and let the speakers orate on a matter...
...best, it tries to pull together this beleaguered city by developing its historic corridors not with freeways that tear up land and divide neighborhoods but with carefully planned "strip developments." They would slowly weave Jerusalem more closely together to make it again an inspiration to the world. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...tradition, pyramid and all. Says Emile Biasini, the civil servant who headed Mitterrand's task force on the project: "People are shocked now because they are always shocked by something new. But in ten years they would be shocked if we decided to move it." -By Wolf VonEckardt...
...Kalashnikovs echoed off the walls of neighboring buildings. Now and then we would crawl on all fours to a window. Below us, the faint shadows of militiamen moved in the gathering darkness. Perhaps a mile out to sea, a U.S. Navy ship cruised past, a gray wolf on a gray sea beneath a hazy gray...
Kitsch, however, is bearable and can even be fun if there is an easy escape. From Copley Place, you step out into Boston rather than some endless suburban parking lot. -By Wolf Von Eckardt