Word: cockers
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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...
...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...