Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article on the plight of the wild horse in America [July 12] was an excellent commentary on a disgusting situation. Perhaps we could convert our abundant supply of stray dogs into dog food, thereby sparing the wild horses and alleviating a growing menace to our cities. Of course, the glamour of a dog roundup could hardly match riding the range in a flat-bed truck...
...persuasive proof. In one series of experiments, Dr. John Vane found that aspirin-like drugs impeded the synthesis of a prostaglandin known to cause fever in cats. In another, Dr. Vane and his colleagues Sergio Ferreira and Salvador Moncada found that aspirin blocked the release of prostaglandins in a dog's spleen that had been removed and kept functioning artificially. In a third, Drs. John Brian Smith and Anthony Willis showed that aspirin prevented production of prostaglandins in human blood platelets...
...know, doing that part -it changed my life." Her voice broke. "It made me realize. So much. That poor girl I played in the picture had been so used. Always attracted to the same kind of man, and each man destroyed her. She was like a little puppy dog. No matter how much you beat her she kept coming back, trusting the owner. Since I did the part, I've been feeling so much tension, such pressure." She drew a deep breath. "It's a definite signal. I'll work through the year because...
...bowing to Klein's austere logic that it is better to spare them as much final pain as possible: "Nothing disturbed Commandant Klein as much as the dread that they might die screaming." It is also Klein's fancy to have Adam act like a pet dog, making him crawl around his parlor on all fours and compete with his teeth for bones tossed to Klein's dog...
...spook 'em. We also used an electric shocking machine, but we didn't harm 'em. That's all poppycock." Anyway, says Chug philosophically, "there's only one end to being a horse, whether he's a champion race horse or a plug: dog food...