Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marched round the cathedral city of Salisbury (pop. 33,000) one day last week, carefully painting broad white circles around the metal telephone posts. The men had not gone mad, as some Sarumites suspected; they were simply trying to protect Her Britannic Majesty's property from ill-mannered dogs. After much experiment, Post Office researchers had reached a solemn conclusion: that not even dire necessity will drive a normal dog to cross a bright white line. Instead, dogs try to sneak around the end of the line, and, in the case of a circle, never venture inside it. "Dogs...
...Salisbury experiment made scores of British dog lovers sit up and take notice. After testing his dog ("with much bending and drawing of white lines"), a Londoner reported that the animal "walked over the line several times, then sat down on it and had to be forcibly pushed off." Wrote one Gordon P. Pane: "I have found from experience with my front gate that my own Alsatians always pay their respects more to white than to any other color...
...that the death rate among battery birds is less than half that of birds on the open range. "Laying eggs is a hen's crowning glory," clucked the Farmers' Union. "The lives of [battery hens] are no more unnatural than the lives of a man and his dog in a London flat...
...newspapers. Looking back over his career, Fabian concludes that most crooks are not too bright. But one, he admits, outwitted him. This was the fellow who squeezed into an eight-inch-wide opening between the back of the kennels and the outside wall at London's White City dog track; he stayed there nearly twelve hours and doped all but one dog in a race, enabling a gambling syndicate to make a $300,000 killing at 5½ to 1 odds. He got clean away. Only one notorious crook, known as "London Johnny," was slim and steely enough...
...Poison & Dog Food. Officials had expected to dole the food out slowly over a two-week period. But on the first day, nearly 100,000 East Germans swamped the eight distribution points, lining up in queues 15 and 20 wide, stretching for blocks. The West Germans hurriedly set up another 18 stations, increased the staff from 500 to 3,400, and summoned more food from big West Berlin stockpiles which had been built up against another Red blockade of Berlin. As fast as these supplies were drained, ships and planes brought in new food from...