Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alice K. Wolf, a former mayor of Cambridge who served on the council for 22 years, said that elected officials often feel pressured to extend favors to large political contributors...
...some contributors expect things in return," Wolf said. "Large amounts of money influence access, but an honest representative will still be a free thinker...
Rachel L. Murphy, whose Meherin name is Snow Wolf, works at the North American Indian Center and the Native American Awareness Centers in Boston...
There are plenty of other blacks who share this sentiment, but many are reluctant to voice it for fear of being branded race traitors. Their problem with Farrakhan, like mine, is not only his anti-Semitism but also his habit of selling wolf tickets--archaic black slang for making loud but empty threats. For all his cries about the need for blacks to develop economic independence, for instance, the Nation of Islam's enterprises are less than impressive: small businesses such as restaurants, the Final Call newspaper and security-guard companies that contract with public housing projects and similar institutions...
...subjects are the British code breakers who with rarefied intelligence and brain-fogging labor broke the German Enigma code in March 1943. Their feat, which helped turn the war at a very dark midpoint, allowed the reading of coded messages to and from German submarine wolf packs. The subs, whose attacks on U.S. freighter convoys in the North Atlantic were starving Britain, could then be tracked and sunk...