Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when La Starza did connect with the champ, his blows seemed to have no effect. One punch snapped Marciano's head back, but it was as if the challenger had playfully cuffed a big old dog. At the end, Marciano was not bruised at all, and not much more tired than when the fight started. He trotted across the ring to a neutral corner after belting La Starza through the ropes...
...safe, sound," dividend-paying blue chips, urges them instead to hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital to grow." Those who measure value by dividends he likens to a man who believed "that a dog could be judged by the size of its tail . . . Many of the mutts which he bought, without looking at anything but their attractive tails, were on their last legs. The first rule of investment should be: never mind what it pays [in dividends...
...spectacle to remember. Ready to depart on a trip to a provincial capital to speak at a political rally, Perón stood at the train window waving to the crowd and holding up his pet toy poodle, Tambor. El Galleguito jealously tried to pull the dog from the President's arms. Flustered, the President handed the dog to the boy, who dumped it to the floor and shoved up to the window, mugging furiously. Perón moved the boy back, leaned out the window to wave goodbye to the crowd. El Galleguito angrily grabbed the window...
...campaign, anti-New Dealer Knutson unwittingly played the foil to F.D.R.'s wit by spreading an unfounded rumor: Roosevelt's pet Scottie, Fala, had been left behind during a presidential tour of the Aleutians, and a destroyer had been dispatched 1,000 miles just to bring the dog home. For F.D.R., this was a golden opportunity to add a homey touch to his famed Teamsters' Union address: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons . . . They now include my little dog Fala...
...Dog's Life. In Hoboken, N.J., when police came to arrest James Shea, 59, for drunkenness, they learned from his wife Maria that during the last five years he had spoon-fed whisky to his three pet mongrels, incited them to bite her more than 200 times...