Word: woof-woof
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...spokesman for the party's aggressive "young Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead...
...Woof-Woof." Ranged against Williams' side was a vigorous young (34) campaigner of the Tom Dewey stripe, typical of the rising generation in Tory Chairman Lord Woolton's "revivified" party. Anthony Fell's grandfather Sir Anthony had been a Tory M.P. in Britain, but he himself had grown up in New Zealand, scraped an education in state schools and taken his first job on an up-country sheep farm at 12/6 ($2.50) a week. He married a registered nurse who now helps raise their two children in a basement flat...
...hours a day, often accompanied by his wife, the Tory candidate stumped his district, tramping streets, ringing doorbells, holding press conferences and speaking at one rally after another (100 in the last ten days of the campaign). To back his cause and secure Hammersmith, Lord Woolton ("Lord Woof-Woof" to the Laborites) put the whole machinery of the national party into high gear. Money, pamphlets and speakers poured into the district. From almost every street corner Tory sound trucks and mobile movie units blared out statistics compiled at the Conservative Political Education Center. Telephone boxes, butcher shops, dance...
...pronounced like W; W is pronounced like V or F; CZ like SH; SZ as in the word "azure." Poles also frequently half tick off an extra consonant or two that is hitched in front of many words, and pronounce OW at the end of words as in "woof-woof...
...Correcto," said the watchman, "but the ghosts in Dolores go 'swish-swish,' never 'woof-woof,' therefore I shoot...
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