Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time, a glossy weekly newsmagazine noted more for its Lucid views and artless covers than for its accuracy, loves Rupublicans and America, dislikes Democrats and Nasser, eschews conjunctions. Despite these shortcomings it is a rollicking, frolicking smashit in the rough, tough dog-eat-dog newsmagazine game, has huge advertising revenues, publishes several international editions. Publisher Henry Luce, a semi-literate Yaleman (his wife is femalegate to Brazil Clare Booth Luce), was "unavailable for comment" today as irate mobs hurled Bolivitriol at the U.S. embassy and Information Office in reaction to the latest piece of Timeddling...
...other end of the line, by surrounding them with tautly suspenseful music. Instead of using leitmotifs to represent love, abandonment, jealousy, he wrote separate sequences for each of the woman's pathetic appeals-her story of a suicide attempt, her memories of a trip, the pet dog that misses its master. Said Poulenc: "I tried to give the music an erotic flavor to show that the woman aches for the body of the man, that she wants this body once more...
Rusty Red Dog. Despite the billion tons of rich bituminous coal still underground, conveyors and tipples are being sold for scrap metal; white-frame company towns such as Red Bud, Golden Ash and Kenvir are boarded up and rotting; in Closplint and Punkin Center, streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal...
...transportation than a status symbol impossible to define, and lately, impossible to de-fin. Using this as a wheelbase. Author Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has produced a pleasant little fiction involving gadgeted and gusseted cars that are driven by a privileged group of dogs. The dogs themselves, of course, are at the mercy of the whims of the designers, i.e., the breeders. Author Wallop's protagonist is Hobbs, an English bulldog-one of the more fantastic dog designs. Hobbs owns 250 shares of General Motors common deeded to him by a Miss Galloway...
...reader feels strongly about car design, can stomach some doggedly doggy sex interest and the book's odd dog conversation (a kind of Madison Avenue jive), he may be able to grin, once or twice, wider than his own canines. But as he wags his little tale, Satirist Wallop seems to be unaware that his bark is a great deal worse than his bite...