Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word of mouth from Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. A $50 donation from the adopting owners goes toward organizing more rescue efforts. Raker encourages breeders of other dogs to start similar programs. She says, "It's only those people with a thorough knowledge of their breed who can intervene effectively and relocate these welfare dogs to appropriate homes...
Throughout, the Atlas scatters information like drops of sea spray, showing how waves are formed, how the oceans help make the world's weather, how pollution is gradually depleting valuable fisheries and destroying salt marshes where sea birds breed. Its last important section is a series on the world's major ocean areas, tracking origins of the warm Mediterranean Sea and the frigid Arctic Ocean, assaying values of flora, fauna and inanimate components of the marine world, outlining what must be done to preserve and protect them...
Near the end of A Handful of Dust ( 1934), Evelyn Waugh sentenced one of his characters to a bizarre fate. Tony Last was trapped forever in the backwaters of the Amazon, held prisoner by an illiterate half-breed who demanded, at gunpoint, that Tony read aloud to him the collected works of Charles Dickens. Waugh's barbed tribute to Dickens' universal popularity hilariously summed up an attitude then prevalent among the literati: Dickens was fine for soothing savage breasts, but he was not a writer with whom educated gents would care to spend much time...
...stronger fundraising base, most Overseers themselves tacitly consented to this change in emphasis; Harvard administrators have given even blunter approval of the strategy. In addition, Harvard Magazine, in compliance with officials' requests, last month published an article extolling the Overseers of yore and insinuating that the new breed of Overseers has brought Harvard to the brink of financial disaster...
Generations of sons have followed fathers into the pits, and into the union. A miner is never "just a miner." He is a miner, a member of a proud breed, who wrenches riches from the bowels of the earth under conditions awesomely unforgiving of mistakes. The calling produces a fierce camaraderie, expressed through the union and rooted in the Anglo-Saxon heritage of the Appalachian mountaineer...