Word: dog
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...found his fighter.When Ulysses S. Grant took command in the East, Lincoln didn't, for once, demand specific plans. Six weeks later Grant had lost more men than every general before him, but Robert E. Lee's army was bottled up in Petersburg, Va. "Hold on with a bull-dog grip," Lincoln urged Grant. Unlike his predecessors, Grant...
...could get some purchase. Their father, Mack Johnson, who had been hauling wheat, said it was nothing compared with some of the blows the family had been through. At that point, the visitor resolved that if anybody in the house answered to the name Dorothy or owned a dog called Toto, he would not stick around...
...shot a private detective sent to monitor her extramarital trysts, not to mention the mishaps of Daughter Mary Lea, who once charged that her second husband had a homosexual affair with their chauffeur and plotted her murder. Then there were publicized allegations about a grandson injecting the family dog with heroin, and his brother planning to blow up a police station...
Inside the aircraft, the flight attendant has to remind Horowitz to fasten his seat belt. "I don't like these things," he tells her, but he complies. Across the aisle is a blind man. Wanda, who each year anonymously contributes funds to provide blind people with Seeing Eye dogs, comments, "Putting together the right dog and the right person is like matchmaking. They both have to be properly prepared. The dog and the blind person stay together much longer and more happily than a good many marriages...
...pianist and band vocalist and began writing tunes for revues and nightclubs like Harlem's Cotton Club, including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World on a String and III Wind. A retiring man who liked to jot down musical ideas while walking the dog or riding in a car, he worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), survived forgettable...