Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terriers' Bark. On the other hand, Winston Churchill cried: "If such a step had been taken by the U.S. before the last war, it would have stopped it." But the U.S.'s bluntness almost gave the Foreign Office heart failure. Said one old Whitehall hand wistfully: "When I think how many millions we in our heyday spread around the world-quietly and discreetly." Said the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has given . . . the impression that he has sent the Yankee terriers scuttling down the streets of Athens and Ankara with a bright red can tied to their tails, barking...
Athens and Ankara liked the bark of the Yankee terriers. Both thanked the U.S. profusely; the Athens municipal council voted to name a city street for Harry Truman...
...stray dogs a year, but the Animal Protective League will not permit their use in laboratories. A California delegate complained that in his state unwanted dogs are made into fertilizer: "But ... we don't dare show visitors through our laboratories for fear they'll hear a dog bark...
When he landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
...them, Chanza of Sunnyshane, was suddenly worth less last week just after he opened his mouth at the Basenji show. The hall was filled with a devastating hush, followed by hysterical female titters. "It was a most unfortunate noise," announced harassed Miss Williams, "but hardly a bark. It was a sort of woof." But TIME'S London bureau checked the question carefully with earwitnesses. Chanza, they reported, had definitely barked -"a wuffly bark," but a bark nonetheless...