Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogs were licking his feet again. But finally, Nipper, the biggest, trotted home. Nobody paid him any attention; Roger's father, scores of neighbors and two state troopers were scouring the countryside for the lost boy. But the next morning Roger's brother Rodney followed the dog. Slowly, and with numberless side expeditions, snuffmgs and flea scratchings, Nipper led the way to the tree with the feet sticking...
Ready to Go. The Air Force could accept its share of the blame for many mistakes of the past. But it could take much credit for planning the present pattern of first-line U.S. security. Even during the dog days of postwar economy, it wisely planted procurement contracts for the largest possible number of airplane and engine designs, and the plane designs look good all the way back from the production models to the drawing board. After Korea, it worked hard to broaden its production base. In some cases, the Air Force deliberately paid more for planes just...
...right by. But last week's production, which closed after four performances† completely lacked spin and sparkle. Claire Luce played Beatrice as officiously and coyly as an old maid who has just announced her engagement; Antony Eustrel's Benedick was all O-what-a-gay-dog-am-I. And under Eustrel's direction, the rest of the play offered such tripping and gurgling and spouting as today are banned from high-school auditoriums...
...class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
...guide should, the President spiced his information with folksy stories. The best was about Texas' late Senator Morris (18th Amendment) Sheppard and Calvin Coolidge. Once, at a White House breakfast, Sheppard was surprised to find the Coolidge collie barking at his elbow. Coolidge explained that the dog wanted Sheppard's sausage, so the Senator gave it to him. Concluded Truman with relish: "And, what's more, Sheppard didn't get another sausage...