Word: bulldogs
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...puddle was a great, eloquent, side-whiskered, doggedly handsome jumping jack of all intellectual trades called Thomas Henry Huxley. For a while, belief seemed to be a question of Genesis or The Origin of Species, Adam or ape, God or Darwin-and Evolutionary Biologist Huxley, as "Darwin's bulldog," was widely suspected of not being pro-God. For the line Huxley himself preferred to tread, a sort of high wire stretched between scientific fact and an unknowable God. he coined the word agnostic...
...down from 8:30 a.m. to midafternoon, escaped the stream of bullets pumped into the house by a 30-cal. machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...
...feeling for the solid, strong body that has been a requirement of the breed since it was brought out of China in 1860 by the British. With Clara hustling alongside, Chik T'Sun glided across the floor with the approved controlled roll. After hesitating over a broad-chested bulldog and a frisky Pembroke Welsh corgi, the judge pointed his right hand at Gossie and declared him best-in-show...
...interval, bluff George and reticent May were married, and set up house at York Cottage, near Sandringham, practically a split-level by royal standards. George had his quirks and foibles, and his language owed more to the quarterdeck than to his quarterings. But he had more character than a bulldog and, like May, he was frankly a square. "There seems to me to be too much money spent on gilding. I hate gilding," was one of his rare judgments. Each night while George was in his library with the Times or his stamp collection, May dutifully played an educational card...
...Yale was tremendous. In head-to-head competition, the Elis swept everything but the 500 duel. The Crimson two-mile relay team came in a poor fourth, behind a stacked Holy Cross lineup, Yale's second unit, and Brown. The Bulldog's top four half-milers ran a superlative 7:43.8 to win the spotlighted two-mile relay...