Word: bulldogged
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...have been Churchill's task to launch the lifeboats, but TIME'S editorial staff must certainly have missed the boat, or at least been adrift in one, when it selected the cherubic bulldog as the "Man of the Half-Century." Could it be that your ever-apparent bias toward Franklin D. Roosevelt eliminated him as the only obvious choice-or does TIME require more time to see things in their true perspective...
Eight to Four. After the jury retired, Alger Hiss sat in the courtroom reading a magazine. He seemed unworried, even happy. As the evening wore on, he read bulldog editions of the morning papers, chewed gum. As hour after hour dragged by, Hiss's confident smile faded. Everybody thought that if there were to be an acquittal, it would come fast. That was the way Stryker and Hiss had pitched their case-to brand the whole charge ridiculous. Obviously, some members of the jury did not think...
...bulldog-jawed, 5 ft. 10½ in. Ben Jones walks with short, mincing steps and a hint of a limp (from a football injury). But he sits a horse straighter than most men half his age. Outside Barn 15 at Churchill Downs last week, atop his stable pony, Ben hardly looked like the boss of the most efficiently run stable in U.S. racing history. There are no fancy airs about Ben Jones, from Parnell...
Georgia-born Reporter Johnson, 44, whose drawl and easygoing manner hide a bulldog tenacity, was neither a crime specialist nor an I-cover-the-waterfront expert when he started. He was a general-assignment man who had served the Sun for 20 years, on everything from the burning of the Morro Castle to the storming of Okinawa. In a 1946 series on hijacking, he had picked up some waterfront contacts. Using them, he started his digging into waterfront crime...
...Well," he admitted, "they were a little reluctant to leave. We imported ten Bengal tigers, and within a couple of hours there wasn't a bulldog left. Since we couldn't get near a house full of tigers, we had to find a herd of wild elephants and turn them loose on the tigers...