Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of a neurotic dog called Nick (or, as the French broadcaster put it, un brave toutou qui dement neurasthénique...
Turkey Spencer yielded to no man as an enemy of the fox. As a state representative, Turkey had beaten the hound-dog lobby, got a bill passed to make fox killing legal for the first time in 20 years. But Turkey was up for re-election ("Let's have Turkey in November"). He had nothing against the hound-dog boys personally, but the farmers had the votes. Turkey had read about a man in Brownwood named Adam L. Lindsey, who could call foxes with a cow horn. He sent...
...slyest. We four have been the direct cause of about 600 bitin' the dust." He explained carefully how two men with miners' cap lights were to stand back-to-back waiting to spot the fox's red eyes. Behind the jury box, some hound-dog men snickered...
...midnight, the hunters had bagged two house cats, one hoot owl, a large bullfrog and a parked 1949 Buick sedan (someone saw the tail lights through the brush, thought they were a fox's eyes), but nary a fox. Said a hunter sadly: "Hound-dog men will really have the laugh tomorrow." Lindsey was undaunted. It just showed that the rabies had cut the fox population to nothing. "They've extincted themselves," said...
...Dog's Life. In Montgomery, Ala., Marion D. Perry, kept awake by his neighbor's dogs, was fined $10 for sitting on his porch at night, howling back...