Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since Grimy Garden does not sell such delicious fries, can you identify what brand of hot dog is steamed to perfection there? How about the mustard...
...novels, proves quite an asset in this journal. He has a nose for those human quirks that override ideology. He notes that the clerks' coatroom at the South Vietnamese consulate in Paris is filled with mink coats. He notices that an officer is wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky phrases of the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Does one gasp or laugh? That...
...decided to go to the lucrative upper-deck trade and challenge the successful students. I went to the upper deck commissary and demanded to sell hotdogs. I hoped to combine the style of Veteran's Stadium fixture Charlie "Hotdog" Frank and the hustle of the nouveau-riche dog-men. Nevertheless, lacking the seniority to sell the high-profit-margin dogs, I settled back to the 35-cent cokes and prayed for an instant heat wave...
...submit meekly to enforced separation, and for many years (before she was confined to an asylum) made persistent efforts to lure home her estranged husband. Once, having heard that he was to speak at a book exhibition, Vivienne launched off for the lecture room, armed with their dog Polly and his three most recent books. She arrived just ahead of him and in the crowded doorway turned and faced him, saying "Oh, Tom." He took her hand, said "How do you do?" and walked quickly past her. After the lecture, she hurried to the speakers' table while the audience...
...Austria-Hungary, with the parliamentary politicking the monarchy permitted, and with the middle-class respectability his family pursued, Hasek set about making himself objectionable to them. He was editor of Animal World magazine, and he made up imaginary animals to write about. He founded a 'cynological institute'--a dog fanciers' store. He ran a sarcastic campaign for parliament as the candidate of the Party of Moderate and Peaceful Progress Within the Limits of the Law. He spent some time in an insane asylum, and he drank all the time...