Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karamanlis wanted to be top dog, and he growled at each new move that boosted Papandreou's popularity. The new Premier froze rents, lavishly promised all Greeks a free education, declared a moratorium on farmers' debts, offered wage boosts to just about everybody. He gave up the Premier's limousine ("We can build four village schools with the money"), opened his office once a week to petitioners who swamped him with gripes, job requests, even demands to speed up their divorces. Though antiCommunist, Papandreou also managed to please leftists. He promised to free most...
...goes almost everywhere, and it does almost anything. It never touches a drop of water, and sips gasoline daintily, as if through a straw. It is a durable first car, a dependable second car, a disposable station car, a playpen for the kids, and a kennel for the family dog. Now the Volkswagen has a new, bolder occupation: it is off to the race track-squealing brakes, crashing gears, smoking tires...
...teen-aged boy whose horse, Cheyenne, bit him whenever his master's back was turned ("usually in the seat of the pants"), Miller's advice was equally direct: "Face Cheyenne." Nor was Miller buffaloed by the dilemma of the dog-doting husband whose spouse preferred cats. "We can't have two animals. Is there a way we can reach a compromise?" asked the reader. "Of course," Miller assured...
Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...
Nonsense, son. Walt Disney has done some terrible things in his time, but it's safe to say there's one thing he has never done. He has never permanently separated a boy and his dog...