Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have had a chance to reach the public if they were written now instead of then. Would Smoke Gets in Your Eyes be allowed by broadcasters to be heard instead of Be-Bop-a-Lula? Could Indian Love Call penetrate the air waves which are flooded with Houn' Dog...
...Learning. In Saigon, about to congratulate his host's Vietnamese cook on a tastefully prepared rabbit, ex-Anthropology Student Frederic Wickert looked closer at the dish, recognized the remains of a cat, that evening went home, analyzed his own dinner, discovered that his Chinese cook had served him dog sausages...
...shall eventually reach the desired goals." Often it was not easy. One dark season more than 20 people were killed in picket-line skirmishes at the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In Manhattan angry crowds howled for J.D.R. Jr.'s blood: "Shoot him down like a dog!" J.D.R. Jr., first reacting instinctively to defend his Colorado managers, later went out to Colorado with a bright young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became his lifelong friend and longtime Prime Minister of Canada), found out about company towns, came away criticizing paternalism as "antagonistic...
...handed over to the warders his diamond-studded grand-admiral's baton, a silver alarm clock and 15,000 gold marks, donned prisoner's uniform. Unrepentant and spouting hatred, he took exercise to keep fit, read to keep his mind alert (favorite works: Jack London's dog stories), while his old submarine officers and neo-Nazi organizations still claimed his leadership, and lawyers sought means to free him. The last of these efforts failed in 1955 when the Allied authorities ignored a plea that Dönitz' Nurnberg imprisonment be considered part of his court sentence...
...Confidence. In Brixham, England, Mrs. Rhoda Clarke refused to pay a ?1 ($2.80) dog license, told a magistrate's court the things she was protesting: "H-bomb tests, German rearmament, the flouting of the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Human Rights, and British Government policy...