Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden poppies and blue lupine beckoned. It was Easter Sunday, and in the spirit of the day Jerry Edgmon, n, and his kid brother David, 9, left the tent where they lived with their migrant family, and started to pick some flowers for their mother. With their mongrel dog, Rocky, frisking beside them, the boys wandered across some dunes and crossed under a sagging, rusted barbed-wire fence...
...town was housing some crew, and the hoopla and banners turned the Capital into a close facsimile of Princeton or New Haven. One newspaper predicted 200,000 spectators. Arrangements were made for "alumni villages" for all the competing colleges. Hains Point was flooded with Washington cops, beer and hot dog concessions, roped off areas, beflagged grandstands, parking lots, and looked like the site of a state fair. But the W.R.A. was a little too concerned with making a big impression, and proved themselves to be rank amateurs at the job of running regattas...
Down the Mississippi. Russ billed them as the "Aquatots," and was as proud as the owner of a top dog act. Bubba, he boasted, could hold his breath four minutes. The lad trotted 15 minutes on a treadmill, set to duplicate an 8½% grade, to prove that his oxygen intake per pound of weight was more than that of any recorded human other than Runner Gil Dodds. Kathy caused Russ some embarrassment-sometimes she cried in public. In 1949, two Miami women complained to the police that he treated the little girl cruelly; while his car was stopped...
...dog-eared jotbooks was his first notation of his single-minded philosophy of production, which put the world on wheels: "A car for the masses . . . One in every family . . . Nothing will do as much to make good roads as a car in every family." But instead of a car for the masses, his first two companies, formed in 1899 and 1901, made expensive racing cars. In one of them, Ford became the first man to travel 90 m.p.h., and won such fame as a racer that he wrote, optimistically, to his wife's brother: "There is a barrel...
...chance that Congress would vote funds for such a project. Said McKay: "We will not oppose any development by privately owned public utilities so long as their development does not substantially interfere with orderly development of natural resources . . . The Department . . . would ,be playing the reprehensible part of a 'dog in the manger' if it insisted on opposing a badly needed development that private capital is ready and willing to undertake...