Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seldom, too, had the White House such an opportunity to put on the dog for its guests of honor. At the President's state dinner a red-coated Marine Corps band played in the front hall, where marble columns were decorated with vines, and the walls were lined with great banks of pink carnations. Greeting 93 big-name dinner guests, the Eisenhowers, with Elizabeth and Philip, led the formally dressed procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House...
...Fireman Gordon L. Dell testified that guards made him run around on his hands and knees like a dog, barking and biting other prisoners. "Once they ordered me to bite the guard sergeant. I crawled over but didn't bite him. He kicked me hard anyway. Another time a guard burned the back of my neck with a cigarette, and another time a second prisoner and I had our heads banged together so hard I lost consciousness...
...dirty shirt, in a little hole-in-the-wall office in flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers he talked and talked, in the midst of Frankfurt's flattened wreckage, of free private enterprise and the mechanism of Marktwirtschaft, the free-market economy...
Hearts have been transplanted from one dog to another and have taken over the job of pumping the recipient animal's blood, reported Dr. Watts R. Webb, who worked on the project with Dr. Hector S. Howard at the University of Mississippi. The heart alone would be too difficult to move, said Dr. Webb, because of the many blood-vessel connections to the lungs. So his team tried transplanting the heart in combination with both lungs, and then with the left lung only...
...Growing Up is Actor Emlyn Williams reciting or interpreting or impersonating Dylan Thomas' tales of his "young dog" days-at least for a while. After that, performer and storyteller triumphantly become one. On a stage with a single chair. Williams expands into a lusty segment of Wales, a mad but exact re-creation of childhood, a whole lurching animal-orchestra of fun. Williams is Dylan Thomas and Thomas' characters and Thomas as a character. But quite as deftly as he has dug into the people...