Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pavlov's Dog. At Dave Beck's side was a brown leather briefcase bulging with the personal financial records that the committee had asked him to bring. Ordered to turn them over, the witness unfolded a slip of white paper with the seven lines of large type that he had said earlier would "encompass the whole atmosphere of everything...
...outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove a swift knuckle into the small of Beck's back. Three times Beck started to answer; three times Condon's knuckle dug into his spine. Beck soon developed a sort of Pavlov's-dog response to the knuckle-every time he felt it, he automatically began reading, "I must decline...
More dangerous to man than the beef tapeworm is Echinococcus gramdosus. Sometimes the microscopic eggs adhere to the fur of dogs and find their way into the mouths of dog patters. Once established in human tissue, a single egg can multiply asexually into millions of tapeworm heads enclosed in a cyst as big as a grapefruit...
...morning in 1840 in Grand Coteau, La., a young mother shooed her 2½-year-old son outside to play with his big Newfoundland dog. Somehow, tumbling about with the dog, the boy got too near a boiling sugar vat and fell in. He was 43 hours dying. In his mother's diary, his death and the long watch at his bedside are recorded in three stark words: "Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice...
...fashion friends get on his nerves. She replies that his low-life buddies get on her nerves too. Big fight. She wins it easily by invoking the old Hollywood rule of inverse virginity. When she proves that he had another bitch before he met her, Peck is a beaten dog...