Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doll. Last week in the old Ellenton, narcissuses and camellias still bloomed around the angry scars where once there were homes. A hound dog snoozed in the sun on worn brick steps that led to a void. A rag doll lay in the dust. On the blackboard of the village school a childish hand had written in big round letters: "Goodbye, dear school. Goodbye." Galphin Dunbar, 73, a descendant of the family originally granted the land around Ellenton by King George II two centuries ago, sat brooding on a baggage dolly in the railroad shed. "I'm gonna leave...
...pilot cause to stutter and stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably...
...centimeters," groused a Berliner with a 38-cm. neck (15 U.S.). Five-Year Plan pencil sharpeners, wrote Stenographer Ursula Hollman, produce nothing but "crooked points." Worst of all, snorted Housewife Elli Dau, is the unrationed liverwurst. "After roasting it, it is still indigestible. Even our dog shrank his nose and shook his head disapproving...
...current Natural History, Ornithologist Lewis Wayne Walker explains the basis for this widespread belief. While he was watching a prairie-dog town, an eagle sailed over. Prairie dogs and an owl dashed for the nearest shelter, and the owl struggled with the prairie dogs to get down a hole first. When the danger had passed, they all reappeared and went to their proper homes. This emergency procedure, Walker thinks, explains the stories of dog-owl happy households. It was harder to explain the rattlesnake part of the legend. He could report no rattlesnake sharing a hole with either a prairie...
...supplying high-quality goods at low prices. Its cream separators sold for $39.50 v. $125 for competing brands. A farmer could buy a Sunday suit for $4.98, a couch for $5.45, a stove for $11.96, a six-room house ("machine-made, ready-cut") for $972, and a "single dog power churn" for $14.70. Sears was indeed the farmer's friend-to the end and sometimes beyond. Once a woman returned some medicine intended for her husband, because he had died before it arrived. By return mail she received Sears' condolences-along with "our special tombstone catalogue...