Word: barking
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...Bark Worse Than Bite. Sinatra rejected so many tunes, in fact, that his worried business managers began hounding him to accept one. "Finally I told them: 'The next song Mitch suggests, I do.' You know what it was? Mama Will Bark-and I sang it with Dagmar. I growled and I barked on the record, and I guess it sold, but the only good it did me was with the dogs...
...Latin motto, Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
...Bark of St. Peter. The Pope is chief executive of a unique organization. No secular government, no other church is comparable to it. It includes some 1,500 dioceses, 2,500 bishops, 500,000 priests, nuns and brothers in religious orders, with some 100,000 of them serving in the Church's missionary areas throughout the world. Into the brocaded offices of the Vatican Secretariat of State, cables carry news from its nunciatures around the world. To this organization, nothing can be unimportant, be it a new philosophical school in France or new playgrounds in an American diocese...
...Pope obviously cannot steer the bark of St. Peter alone. It is false to assume that he only has to say something into a speaking tube to alter course or speed. The officers and the crew, while disciplined and obedient, have views of their own that the man on the bridge cannot ignore. The Pope's advisers reflect all shadings of opinion. Among notable men around the Pope...
...Shah is not the man his father was-but he never wanted to be. His father, an illiterate Cossack officer who founded a dynasty and unified and modernized Iran, was cruel and extravagant. When he slept in a town, all its dogs were killed lest one bark; he jailed his opponents, hung them by their heels and kicked out their teeth. With an army crop he once whipped a mullah. On the plus side, he reorganized the army, ended child marriage, unveiled the women, codified the civil...