Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pristine environment. Both of those, they found, were not what they had been in gold-rush days. In Point Barrow, for instance, some of the Eskimos whom Ogden had come to interview turned up with Texas oil lawyers and New York accountants in respectful attendance. "I rode the only dog sled in Barrow," Ogden reports. "It belongs to a white high school teacher. The natives have turned in their dogs for snow mobiles...
...review wallah has gone and pulled a howler. When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less. Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife...
...Gertz v. Welch, Inc. decision of June 1974, a Hartford, Conn., judge ruled that former Publisher Gilbert N. Kelman of the weekly Wallingford (Conn.) Post would have to reveal his sources for an article that he wrote and published in October 1972; it linked a Boston philanthropist and dog-track promoter, Joseph M. Linsey, to underworld elements. District Court Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld reversed his own ruling of two years ago, in which he rejected Linsey's demand, presented in a $5 million libel suit against Kelman, for the names of two people quoted but not identified...
...film has almost no verbal humor. A Frenchman shouts insults at the knights, but he's nothing compared to the man in "The Argument Clinic," and the soundtrack compounds the problem by being substandard. Even the music (by ex-Bonzo Dog Band member Neil Innes) is lackluster, without any of the tang or catchiness of "The Lumberjack Song" or "Dennis More...
...night, and an unusual group they were: members and relatives of members of the American Psychiatric Association, which held its annual convention at Anaheim, Calif. In a happy exercise of regression, they all visited the Mad Hatter's tea party, bought Mickey Mouse hats and hugged Goofy the Dog as if he had just returned from a traumatic trip to the vet. Explained Dr. Miles Shore, superintendent of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston: "You enjoy the fantasies of your childhood again, and it acts as a rejuvenation so you can go back happily to the problems...