Word: dog
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Opponents of the conference wonder. Complained Chicago Socialite and Democratic Party Activist Marjorie Benton, a U.S. delegate to last year's U.N. special session on disarmament: "This is not a dog show, not a boat show. It's a military hardware show where they'll be selling everything from thumbscrews to missiles." At the Hyatt stockholders' meeting last week, Benton delivered an impassioned eight-minute lecture on corporate morality. Senator Charles Percy and Representative Abner J. Mikva have asked the sponsors to cancel the exhibition...
Many Britons decided to fight back on their own. In Reading, Orthopedic Surgeon Patrick Chesterman curtly told half a dozen union members who were waiting for treatment: "I'm terribly sorry, but I'm not serving trade unionists today." At the Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St. Edmunds, the owner's wife refused to serve lunch to two senior officers of the National Union of Public Employees. United Biscuits, a maker of cookies, persuaded a high court judge to issue an injunction against picketing truckers...
Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, of the Richmond News Leader, understood right off, and when he drew the White House he sometimes included a hound dog, a beat-up pickup, a gas pump and Billy-just to make the Carters feel at home. Humorist Art Buchwald eased the presidential family into national life by telling his audiences that to understand them one should consider the Carter Administration as just another Hollywood television serial where an average former submarine officer and peanut farmer becomes President. He has a mother who runs off to India at age 68, a daughter who lives...
Alfred Kahn, outspoken head of Carter's anti-inflation program, reflecting on his days as a dean at Cornell University: "You may have heard that a dean is to a faculty as a hydrant is to a dog...
...readers. As parents began to regard play as a natural, even educational activity, toys began to appear on artists' canvases, and children were shown in more informal poses. William Sidney Mount portrayed the Brooks youngsters poised with their hoop; an unknown artist depicted the little Wilsons with their dog and rocking horse...