Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publisher Bennett Cerf of What's My Line? He fills the role of the man of substance, serious, determined, but not quite as scintillating as the rest of the panel. When he does solve a contestant's trade, he is likely to worry the problem like a dog with a bone, asking repeated questions long after it is obvious to even the dullest viewer that he knows the answer. Cerf's apparent function is to slow down the headlong pace of the game. He does it almost too well...
...lungs, which several research teams have tried? For one thing, the Minneapolis doctors reasoned, strange things can happen to human blood in a mechanical oxygenating system; it may undergo mysterious changes. Last week they thought they had an answer to the complex problem, in the lung of a dog...
...Gave up in his fight with White House squirrels, which have been digging up the velvet surface of his putting green. An ultrasonic whistle, box traps and a tape recording of dog and cat noises all failed to conquer the animals, and the President admitted that he had at last lost a campaign...
...quoted as saying: "Bulldogs sit and brood-he never plays . . . Jock is the most disobedient dog-he just doesn't give a damn . . ." Perhaps I may have said all those things in an hour's time. However, I am most sure that I also said a great deal more about this lovable old breed. A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world. They love to play. They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient...
...modest little dairy shop called An Bon Beurre. In 1950 the Poissonards have 47 million francs, a garish apartment, a country estate, and a son-in-law who is a member of parliament. The shortest distance between these two points is crooked-and savagely funny. French Satirist Jean (A Dog's Head) Dutourd has lampooned not only war profiteers but France itself, a country which has earned more justly than England, the reputation of being "a nation of shopkeepers...