Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem in the story is that by overstating a problem, it may give the problem less credibility than it deserves to have. Mother Hubbard's dog is hungry but not yet a wolf. Hale Champion Financial Vice President Chase N. Peterson, M.D. Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development
...disabled, the poor, declaring with Rand's protagonist, John Gait "... that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for [me]." Suffering on low, fixed incomes, they can't even live for themselves. Well, let 'em eat dog food...
...often mean and silly, and fall down easily. Amis pursues his doddering prey with tiny twists of plot: through the use of stink bombs, squirt guns and even a heated orange-juice can of urine, Bernard tries to turn the group against Zeyer's dreadful, sad old dog, Mr. Pastry, and to convince Shorty that his bladder is ruined. A Christmas dinner scene, with bored and horrified younger generations present, is a comic masterpiece in which petty ferocity, mostly masked in genteel dialogue, shatters attempts at kindness and good cheer...
...lines of worry and aggravation engraved on Cohen's face are all too common to middle-aged businessmen for me to question the truth of his counsel to the young Kravitz. In the dog-eat-dog world of business, the skeletons pile up rapidly in the closets of seemingly respectable men who expose themselves to the fluctuations of the marketplace...
...sure love baseball now," the fan said to his designated dog, a mutt who was walking behind him on the way to his designated house. "You can never tell what's going to happen next. At least it's not boring, like it used...