Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate groups are currently investigating an incident Saturday in which two Cambridge policeman allegedly fired shots in the lobby of an apartment building killing an occupant's dog and injuring two others...
Cunningham said that at about 6 p.m. Saturday two uniformed officers entered her apartment building at 279 Pearl St. in response to a reported dog-bite incident in front of the building approximately 15 minutes earlier...
...Public Works truck came and took the dead dog away despite my protests that the body remain where it was," she continued...
Amnesty Movement. Poetry saved him. Recuperating slowly in a medical tent, he sat at the orderly's typewriter and pecked out his most personal and moving poems, the great Pisan Cantos. With eyes unsealed by shock, Pound finally saw himself as he was seen-a vain "beaten dog beneath the hail/ A swollen magpie in a fitful sun." He was flown back to the States to face trial for treason, but the case never came to judgment. Declared hopelessly insane. Pound was committed to a federal bedlam in the District of Columbia...
...loss and frustration but no triumph like the closing of fingers on fingers or the pressure of knee on knee or the secret touching of feet under a table," he said. On another occasion, he remarked, "This is a lonely business. A writer should be like a surly dog with a bone, suspicious of everyone, trusting no one, loving no one. It's hard to justify such a life but that's the way it is if it is done well." Other times he is less dramatic and more down to earth. He told one friend...