Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pests. Li Po broke in: "I have already trapped and killed 20 rats and sparrows and exterminated 300 mosquitoes and flies." Hsiao Ming ordered her son to go off and wash his hands. Li Po had expected praise. Wounded, he replied, "Stop ordering me about like an American running dog...
...when a raging she-bear made for little brother, Old Yeller pitched into her with yelp and fang and held her at bay until the boy was rescued. He saved Travis from a herd of killer hogs, proved again and again that when the chips are down a dog's character can't be gauged by his conformation...
Acting as though he had not a Democratic foe in the world, he threw all his darts at Republicans, declared that the Eisenhower Administration is "stalled in the middle of the road," that "our prosperity is as spotted as a coach dog," and that "evidence is mounting that we are losing the cold war while neutralism is on the rise through much of the world...
DYLAN THOMAS: "He himself never pretended to be anything more than a young dog-witty, naughty, charming, irresponsible and impenitent. But he did give his radio-audience what they wanted...
...Dog Buddy Buddy (Bill Haley & His Comets; Decca). Rock 'n' roll at its gosh-darndest, with something that goes off like pistol shots on the offbeats, a recurrent crash of someone (apparently) smashing dishes between harmonies, and, out front, Haley himself, exuberant with thoughts of his own vitality...