Word: bulldogging
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...longer looking upon social revolution as an unspeakable calamity, Britons of all classes earnestly desired to see Labor get on with its task, were becoming impatient over its tardiness in getting started. "If we cannot hope to defeat Fascism with bulldog negations," warned the New Statesman and Nation, "we cannot hope either to maintain the will to do so among the ordinary people of this country by a vague social policy that does not disguise an inability to see beyond the status quo. . . . Labor in office has strengthened the war effort and pledged itself with Mr. Churchill...
...himself in four more. On one shooting expedition he had been with Harry ("Happy") Maione and Frank ("The Dasher") Abbandando, now awaiting the electric chair at Sing Sing. They had polished off two members of a plasterers' union asleep in their apartment. They also shot the plasterers' bulldog. Once, for diversion, Gurino and four other gorillas abducted a nightclub singer, took her to a vacant lot and raped her. They didn't kill her. They gave her frightened mother about $500, told her to keep her mouth shut. The others were just run-of-the-mill jobs...
Major General Thomas Holcomb, U. S. Marine Corps commandant, issued an order promoting Private James Jolly Plum ("Duffy") Duff, bulldog mascot of the U. S. M. C., to the rank of corporal...
...benefit of all their doubts; they were eager to hear him demolish the New Deal; they were even more eager to cheer some challenging declaration of faith. But inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there awkwardly, a near-great man whose fate has been to cast his mother-of-pearl words before mobs who, whether friendly or bitter, always yell "Louder!" No honest Republican denied to himself that the convention until now had laid the biggest egg since...
...afternoon's frolic by netting two points apiece. with the two scores from the sticks of Ed Ed-munds and Jess Willard the grand total was brought to six. Brooks paced the Yale scorers with three tallies to his credit while Dell pushed in the only other Bulldog counter to pass goalie George Hanford...