Word: bloodhounds
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...remained on, focused on Eichmann's cage. In its glare, the startled Eichmann turned his back on the courtroom, covered his face with his hand. As a Polish Jew was recounting the deportation of 10,000 Jews to Belsen extermination camp, a balcony spectator suddenly leaped up shouting "Bloodhound! Bloodhound!" Eichmann paled and swallowed hard. As guards escorted him out, the man cried: "Let me kill him with my own hands, let me hit him just once-he killed all my family...
...famous Monarch of the Glen-a postcard stag perched upon an improbable peak-was painted for the refreshment room of the House of Lords, but Commons, in its homely wisdom, never got around to voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when he painted the Queen and the prince smugly relaxing after a hunt while a little princess royal frolics in a clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits...
...biological conservatism brought on by the author's 66 years. Yet Dos Passos also still tilts at the U.S. commercial spirit. In pages dotted with ad slogans, he even achieves a kind of running parody of the affluent society, e.g., "KEEPS A MAN so ODOR-FREE A BLOODHOUND COULDN'T FIND HIM," "DON'T BE A DISHWASHER. BUY ONE," "IF YOU KNOW THE WOMAN WHO SHOULD HAVE THIS...
Among all the speculators in stocks, no one, day in and day out, takes greater risks than John Aloysius Coleman, 58, a trim, broad-shouldered Irishman with the saturnine look and sad eyes of a bloodhound. He is a stock specialist and is required by the New York Stock Exchange to "make the market" and help stabilize prices in the 52 stocks he specializes in. This means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when...
...School of Medicine had bought as many as 1,700 dogs for research in a single year, all from nearby towns. But these communities had never reported having disposed of so many healthy strays in this manner. Colwell went off on a hot scent that led him, with a bloodhound assist from Connecticut state police, to the biggest dognapping scandal in the state's history. Last week the first court case came...