Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
...fear that human customers might object, the market proved richer by the year. They stressed the idea of an unvarying diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...
...HYDC voted overwhelmingly to endorse and actively support Saltonstall for Representative in the 10th Congressional District, which includes Brookline, Newton, and the Back Bay section of Boston. In his uphill campaign, Saltonstall is emphasizing personal contact with the voters. The HYDC will help in an intensive bell-ringing program...
...Hooper Bay: I wrote you about Esther Smith's female trouble. She says a wound is still giving her trouble. Now she's pregnant. Can you recommend anything? Over...
Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...