Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx...
DeCarlo was the kind of sailor who would have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...
Sunday at the Zoo (Sun. 4:30 p.m., ABC-TV). Live broadcast from the Bronx Zoo's Penguin House...
Gradually, the swarming Puerto Ricans pushed the Negroes north, the Italians eastward. They expanded across the top of Central Park, crept down the other side. Other pockets established themselves on the lower East Side, in Brooklyn and The Bronx...
...successful truffle-hunting friend of Dr. Rogers, Lorenzo Robba of The Bronx, learned about truffles in Italy, and has since imported truffle dogs to exploit the natural trufflries (usually oak forests) of New York and New Jersey. Truffle dogs, according to Robba, belong to no special breed. Dogs of mixed ancestry do as well as bluebloods, but such large, muscular breeds as German shepherds are apt to take off after rabbits. Much better are small, snuffly dogs with a good scent and a spirit of cooperation...