Word: bulldogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Determined Bulldog. The nation met the strike with its customary equanimity and ingenuity. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Christopher Chataway suspended the post office's century-old monopoly on letter and parcel handling and invited private operators to deliver the mail. Almost immediately, independent operators, dubbed "pirates" by the press, mobilized horses, courier vans, charter aircraft, pigeons and even the members of motorcycle gangs...
During the first 24 hours of the strike, the students carried 1,000 letters with Randall's own 24? stamp. Such individually designed stamps, some of which depict a dogged-looking Winston Churchill or a determined bulldog, are already bringing $2.40 from philatelists...
...Even a Shoe. Blanda has been getting his kicks in pro football ever since 1949 when he joined the Chicago Bears and played with such venerable old fry as Sid Luckman and Bulldog Turner. Son of a Youngwood, Pa., coal miner, George was signed out of the University of Kentucky for a measly $600which Bear Coach George Halas demanded that he pay back if he made the team. He made it, playing linebacker and filling in as quarterback and place kicker. Never happy under Halas ("He was too cheap to even buy me a kicking shoe"), Blanda came...
Besides the big match between Penn and Harvard on Saturday, Princeton is at Brown, Cornell at Columbia, and Yale at Dartmouth. Brown and the Lions are heavily favored in their respective games and victories would keep these teams right with the winner of the Penn-Harvard game. The Bulldog-Indian game will be a battle for seventh place in the standings...
...Accompanying Miyazawa to Washington and keeping close watch to see that he did not surrender too much, were 40 Japanese textile executives. Back home they had sponsored an advertising campaign with the slogan: "Do not give in Trademark to of the unreasonable demands." Trademark of the campaign was a bulldog, symbol of tenacity. Miyazawa offered to restrict shipments on 23 items that make up 60% of Japan's exports of synthetic textiles to the U.S. By restriction, however, he meant a growth rate of 12% to 15%. He also insisted that the agreement be for one year only, with...