Word: bulldogged
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Winston Churchill's longtime bulldog faith in the solidarity of the British Empire was revealed in a 44-year-old wager made public by a Manhattan rare-book dealer, who had just purchased the sheet of paper on which Churchill had written out the terms of the bet. On Jan. 23, 1901, while on a lecture tour of the U.S., Churchill bet ?100 against Minneapolis Bibliophile James C. Young's assertion that "within ten years from this date the British Empire will . . . lose one quarter of India or of Canada or of Australia...
...Americans were Bradley, who helped Montgomery lay out the ground tactics, and Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, a bulldog of a man who is perhaps the hardest-working officer in the U.S. Army. It was Beedle Smith who coordinated the entire invasion planning. TIME Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker called him "driving, determined, devoted, and occasionally furious." Eisenhower called him the best chief of staff in the world, and Monty said quite openly that he would like to steal...
...Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Hilton, the young wife of the Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
...Francisco a divorce suit slowed almost to a halt while Lieut, and Mrs. Rudolph Samson wrangled over custody of an English bulldog...
...Sacramento another bulldog named Rummy Girl was summoned by a possessive mistress in a will directing that Rummy Girl be killed, placed in a casket and buried in a cat-&-dog cemetery...