Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office. Proclaimed Dior: "I have emphasized the bosom. My shoulders are full and rounded, the real shoulders of a happy woman. I am enchanted that a movement in favor of big hats is under way. They bring back dignity to the little faces coiffed in mad-dog style." This was Paris in the dog days...
...Constellation was on the regular weekly flight from London to Israel via Paris, Vienna and Istanbul. Because Communist Bulgaria's borders are closed to all but Communist aircraft, the flight course normally follows a twelve-mile-wide corridor across Yugoslavia and takes a sharp dog leg around southwest Bulgaria, before flying across Greece to Turkey. The man who originally charted the course for El Al, Captain Stanley Hinks, 35, was at the controls. Among his passengers were twelve Americans, all New Yorkers on their way to visit friends and relatives in Israel. Captain Hinks's last message, radioed...
...metropolitan life of Peking itself. Leading off from Kublai's broad roads, which checkerboard the city, are warrens of hutungs, narrow lanes of deep dust or mud lined by windowless walls of inward-facing houses, and named in keeping with their history: Ditch of a Thousand People, Dog's Neck Lane, Human Hair Lane, Chase the Thief Lane...
...Religious preferences of armed forces personnel will be spelled out on their dog tags in future instead of being designated by a single letter, the Department of Defense announced. Purpose of the new policy: to identify "more appropriately" those hitherto placed in category "P" (for all Protestant denominations) and "X" (for all faiths not Protestant, Jewish or Roman Catholic...
...walks, she talks, she's full of chalk; the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the nth degree.") And if they were asked: "What do plebes rank?", they would of course have replied: "Sir, the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the mess hall, the Hell Cats, and all the Admirals in the whole blamed Navy." These goings on are called traditions-something no self-respecting military school can do without...