Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sticky afternoon, the older man began to weaken. Three times during the match Palmer pulled even; twice Sweeny held him off. Then, with a fine par 4 on the 32nd, Palmer went ahead. On the next hole he shot a birdie 3 to go two-up. Dog-tired, Sweeny came back to halve the next hole and win the 35th. But from the last tee Sweeny pushed his drive into the rough, chipped up to the green in three. Palmer ran his third shot three inches from the pin. Sweeny shook his head, shook Palmer's hand, conceded...
...take them for granted. Yet the proper Burmese are remarkably free with their language: Burmese women will astonish Westerners with vivid, physical references to males they do not like; Prime Minister U Nu, a Buddhist layman of unusual piety, will casually refer to Communists as "Kwe-Ma-Tha," meaning "dog-bitch-sons...
...this week, after an early-morning workout, misfortune came back to dog the Dancer. He pulled up lame again, and Owner Alfred Vanderbilt finally decided to call it quits. In three years and 22 starts, the Big Grey had lost only one-the 1953 Kentucky Derby-and earned $785,240. Said Vanderbilt: "He will not race again, and will enter stud at the Sagamore Farm in Maryland next spring...
...British researchers reversed the usual order, tried a dog-reducing diet on humans first. Rusks fortified with calcium and amino acids, they found, will streamline anything from a Falstaff-size human to a dachshund in two weeks...
...shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth) so he can "eat me a bait of hicker' nuts" and "enough roasting ears to kill a goat." When Skeeter finds him a "li'l old puppy dog" lost in the swamp, life seems about as sweet as it can be without a shotgun. Thing about Lady is. she can't bark, but she can laugh and cry real honest-to-God tears. And Skeeter trains her until she can point quail at 50 yards. When...