Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the white man set foot in the New World, wolves roamed freely across what would become the U.S., preying on the great herds of deer, elk and bison. The Indians were so in awe of this skilled predator that many tribes incorporated the wolf in such rituals as ceremonial dances, hoping that braves might acquire some of the animal's courage and stamina. But with the settlement of the continent, the hunter became the hunted. Today Canis lupus has all but vanished from the contiguous 48 states. Only in the lonely wilds of northern Minnesota is there...
...Minnesotans, there have been no simple answers. In recent years, a better understanding of lupine behavior has resulted in a more sympathetic public image of the wolf. Wildlife biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained...
...could Randy Newman's asinine I Love L.A. make your top 20 videos and not Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf or Union of the Snake...
...innkeeper, whose name was Lyle Wolf, was from Los Angeles. One of a growing number of novices in the trade, he had allowed romanticism to overtake him a couple of years ago, chased the ghost of Thornton Wilder across the continent, and set himself up as a country squire, the possessor of a first-edition mortgage-Bob Newhart with a plumber's helper. His wife's name was Barbara, and Barbara was saying, over wine, that she had a relative hurt in a Corvair...
...Alice K. Wolf was the only new councilor sworn in. "Everything went as expected," she said after the ceremony. "It was very dignified...