Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fayer said she had never raced in an event longer than 500 yards, but she went out like a sprinter in the first quarter of this 40 lap endurance contest and was so far ahead of everyone that she could have won with a dog-paddle in the last five laps. She finished easily in first with a time...
...went out to Whacker's house the other day to discuss the implications--and the potential beneficial effects--of the forthcoming research with him. I was greeted at the gate to his palatial home by a dog which, somewhat surprisingly, spoke seven languages and, after he showed me to the front door, challenged me to a game of whist...
...woolen sweaters, past a lobster wearing a bib that said "Kosher," and out into the yard, where I hid in six-foot tall blades of grass which were reading copies of Pravda. I made it to my car, but to my chagrin, it was being eaten--by the very dog whose invitation to whist I had foolishly declined earlier in the afternoon...
...psyche, Washington Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, identifies four types. The first is the "craftsman," a gentle holder of traditional values, an admired worker so absorbed in his own specialty -engineering, finance, sales-that he cannot sense broad corporate goals, let alone lead a complex organization. Next comes the "jungle fighter," dog eat dog all the way, destroying peers, superiors and eventually himself. The "company man" is occasionally effective but lacks daring to bring about bold changes: his is a world dominated by fear and caution, filled with self-protective memorandums and low-risk courses of action...
Even fashion pictures of strong women seem designed to play on the fears of misogynist men. A Von Wangenheim photo in the current Vogue has a vagina dentata theme: a vicious dog faces the camera, with bared teeth directly in front of a woman's crotch. Doesn't the picture seem to say that women are sexual killers? "Well," rationalizes Von Wangenheim, "it works better that...