Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well at Little America. When no one wanted the job of collecting penguins and seals for the American Museum of Natural His tory, Siple volunteered, even though "I don't have a merit badge in skinning." By the expedition's end he was a proficient if dogged taxidermist. He learned, too, how to train and handle a dog team. Among the theories: never bend down, never fall down, and never excrete near them. For 22 months in 1928-30, as Admiral Byrd recalls it, "Paul did a man's work...
Suddenly the hillside came alive with scores of poncho-clad men, armed with guns and machetes, and charging silently toward the post. A dog barked. The sentry got off only one shot before an answering bullet caught him, but it was enough to rouse the garrison. Half-naked, the soldiers, boys of 20 or less, rushed to their battle stations and began to fire. All day long, in wave after wave, the attackers stormed the post. At nightfall, as the assailants grouped for a last charge, only the corporal, who was wounded in one leg, and a private were left...
Jack London, who is the most popular and widely translated U.S. author in Russia and Iron Curtain countries (according to UNESCO), first became famous just after the turn of the century with three stories-two about dogs and one about a man. They closely resembled each other. Buck was a Saint Bernard and the dog in all the world least likely ever to be drawn by James Thurber, who found life too tame on the trail in The Call of the Wild and joined a wolf pack. White Fang told of a wolf that left Alaska to become civilized...
...outstanding holdout against industry-wide diversification is American Can Co., No. 1 tin-can maker, formerly top dog in the entire industry. Says American Can's President William C. Stolk: "We just don't want to acquire companies for the sake of expanding." But last year Canco expanded into fiber milk containers; this year it bought the Bradley Container Co. and branched into plastic bottles. Unless the Justice Department wins its antitrust cases, chances are the container industry will go right on making bigger packagers out of littler ones...
...taken place in any Western capital. Two of the tales-Barhash and Hamamah-are about Arabs, not Jews, and reveal a surprising attachment for the way of life of Bedouin and fellahin. Others hold a mirror to contemporary Israeli life: Yehuda Yaari's pastoral The Shepherd and His Dog reflects the sabra's passionate love of his barren land; Jerusalem-born Yehuda Burla writes wittily of the marriage between a stolid Oriental Jew and his hopelessly romantic Russian Jewish wife-which is also a marriage between two very different civilizations...