Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dog Sleds v. Tractors. In December and January, the Antarctic midsummer, icebreakers plow channels through the frozen sea for Navy supply ships, and McMurdo is almost as busy as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. To support a population that reaches 3,500 at summer's height and will include 120 scientists this year, U.S. freighters and C-130 Hercules air transports shuttle in mountains of food and gear, haul back tons of scientific records and specimens to U.S. laboratories...
Explorer-scientists still use dog sleds frequently in terrain too rough for tractors or motor toboggans. New Zealand dog handlers have not only evolved a special breed of husky to withstand the world's crudest climate, but have even developed a new "language" that the dogs understand better than the "Mush!" used by old Yukon hands: to start the team, the handler cries "Wheet...
...select the "Hatemonger." He should be shown as a young man with two rifles under his arm (Oswald's and Beckwith's), copies of Das Kapital and Mein Kampf in the other hand, and a police dog at his side. This would cover the haters from Southeast Asia to South Africa to Alabama...
...when angered, he absentmindedly dashes beer into the face of a bulldog. He grabs young wenches by the backs of their skirts and topples them onto piles of new-mown hay. He is up to his pointed chin in geese, cattle, ducks, pigs, horses, and a yelping nation of dogs. Mornings, he can be found asleep on the hearth where he passed out, the coals of a great fire still dying beside him, a dog or two nestled in his armpits...
...each sale would make news. Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course, in that we can take ten or twelve servants when we travel, and thus can have things done the way we like them wherever...