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Word: cockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even in a bed, where the bugs might pick up useful leads for blackmail. For many U.S. families in Iron Curtain countries, sleuthing for bugs has become a kind of sport, an indoor counterpart to the Easter egg hunt. One couple in a satellite capital boasts that its cocker spaniel can sniff out a bug as surely as a pig snuffling a truffle. But new bugs always take their place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Little Ears | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...final judging for best in show, Sister was matched against a bigger, white miniature poodle, a Scottish terrier, a parti-colored cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Sister | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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