Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money to the punching season, and Club presidents often have to scramble around to recruit members to attend the various punching functions. Of course there is still a hard core of devoted members who haunt the Clubs morning, noon, and night--but they seem to be a slowly-dying breed...
...money to the punching season, and Club presidents often have to scramble around to recruit members to attend the various punching functions. Of course there is still a hard core of devoted members who haunt the Clubs morning, noon, and night--but they seem to be a slowly-dying breed...
During the 3½ years that William K. Zinsser reviewed films for the New York Herald Tribune, he habitually criticizedt the movies with a boldness commendable but rare in his breed. If Zinsser thought a movie was poor, he said so. A Farewell to Arms was, in his view, "vulgar to the point of nausea." He found South Pacific to be "arty and distracting." Ten days after this last comment ran in the Herald Tribune, the disrespectful Zinsser was no longer reviewing movies; he was writing editorials...
...familiar, somewhat pompous figure with the familiar, somewhat pompous voice rose up before his fellows one day last week and, in his measured prose, indicted the whole breed. "I have decided," said Edward Murrow at the convention of the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Chicago, "to express my concern about what I believe to be happening to radio and television . . . If there are any historians about 50 or a hundred years from now and there should be preserved the Kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white or color...
Over the years, U.S. dog breeders have produced and trained a variety of breeds to cope with the widely varying conditions of U.S. hunting areas (see color pages). A popular favorite is the friendly little Beagle, often tagged the poor man's hunting dog. Slower than larger hounds, the beagle will not range too far afield of the hunter or frighten game too far ahead of the gun. Oldest upland game dog in the U.S. is the silky-coated English Setter. Northern hunters use this breed for grouse and woodcock while Southerners hunting quail prefer the shorter-haired Pointer...