Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mallinckrodt, who had had a mild heart attack. After Mallinckrodt was made comfortable on the floor to await an ambulance, the President and his company discreetly tiptoed around him and assembled in the Red Room for more talk and a few old school songs. > Got word that his three dogs, Charlie, Pushinka and Clipper, will wear District of Columbia dog licenses Nos. 1, 2 and 3, beginning July 1. Charlie, a Welsh terrier, already carries No. 1, but Pushinka (Khrushchev's gift to Caroline) and Clipper (Old Joe Kennedy's gift) have held...
Smooth & Scatty. Infractions of etiquette upset her. Vulgarity makes her eyes flash. "I am not an intolerant woman, but I abominate stupidity," she says. Her withering stare could reduce a rabid dog to foaming jelly. She smiles lopsidedly at absurd questions. She gives lopsided answers too. Is she eccentric? "I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a superindividual. Perhaps an eccentric is just off-center-ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal...
...decided against buying floors in the Manhattan cooperative apartment building that already boasts Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller's first wife, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, Governor Rockefeller's second wife, Margaretta Fitler Murphy Rockefeller, Mr. Nixon's only wife Pat, his children, their dog, some of Governor Rockefeller's children, all of the second Mrs. Rockefeller's children, and the most discreet elevator operator on Fifth Avenue...
...urge for lingerie led marauding Brown University students to congeneric Pembroke College. Said Dean Rosemary Pierell: "It's the first time in 16 years that a horde of Brown men has managed to reach the upper floors of a Pembroke dormitory." It took Providence police with Birmingham-type dogs to quell the brouhaha elsewhere in town. Eight Brown rioters were arrested, but the chief injuries were sustained by two policemen and a bystander. One cop was hit with a rock and the other suffered the unkindest cut of all: he was bitten by his own dog...
When the fox bites a village dog and thus creates the threat of an epidemic of rabies, Brace finds himself more and more at odds with society. Contemptuous of the German authorities trying to control the disease, he strikes up a strange alliance with an itinerant shepherd and game poacher whose sheep are suspected of infection. Defending him, Brace finds himself in a shooting showdown with a posse of outraged villagers...