Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rights and correct imbalances. But the victory was so complete that the rights were soon woven into everyday U.S. economic life. Meanwhile, the laws drawn to protect underdog labor came to serve, in big segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written into law, labor kept pushing for more "more," often at the expense of the economy...
...paint, cultivate roses and ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished him to a dusty office as inspector...
Castro dropped in unannounced on the Bronx Zoo ("the best thing New York City has"). "I heard there was a riot at the gate," said Zoo Director James Oliver. "I rushed right out and there he was." Castro fed elephants, gorillas and orangutans, ate a hot dog and an ice-cream cone, vaulted a rail, and to the horror of the guards, reached into a cage and patted a Bengal tiger. "They don't do anything," he said...
...silent films: the wildly staring eyes and clawing hands of grief, the shaking fists upraised in righteous anger. At one point, Romeo stands with roses in one hand and a human skull in the other, registering alternate hope and despair with the instantaneous reflexes of a Pavlovian dog...
...mustached vice president and research director of Walston & Co. Tabell keeps 2,500 charts, biggest number on Wall Street, has used them to score a topflight record in predicting market swings. Says Samuel L. Stedman, partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "Ed Tabell is the best bird dog on the Street. When he points, you better look...