Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to take the opportunity to broaden this final point. If the ghetto does not impart an equalitarian strain to its victims, then it impresses the dog-eat-dog ethos upon them, and perpetuates a cycle of discrimination. The image of Jewish landlords violating state housing laws at the expense of Harlem tenants, to my mind, fits this cycle; so does Negro persecution and exploitation of Puerto Ricans and other Negroes. Advancing the cycle to grant the Negro middle class its exploitative prerogatives does not complement the civil rights movement...
Meeting His Fate. At the end of his rounds Mysovsky is dog-tired and depressed, stops off at the recreation hall for a drink, and promptly gets plastered. While drunk he promises the workers 30% of the harvest instead of the regulation 10%, arid lo and behold, with that incentive, they are out in the fields early next day. Next morning, Mysovsky wakes up with a hangover, rubs his eyes at the sight of workers' kerchiefs bobbing like daisies in the fields. Then he remembers...
Most americans have never heard of him. 'But in Moscow, Pelé is a popular hero. When he walks the streets of Stock holm, troops of children dog his heels, touching his black arms in awe. In Madrid, his name ranks with Ordoñez and Dominguin. and the next time he is in London, he will be presented to the Queen. He gets 200 letters a week from all over the world, many addressed simply "Pelé" - with no country. Back home in Brazil, he is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. and ambitious politicians are forever trying to shake...
With an alarmed eye on the Journal, whose prestrike circulation of 601,625 paced the afternoon field, the Telegram (442,936) piously proclaimed that it would offer "no gimmicks," then promptly announced an armful: a new contest, a new "space-age" comic strip, a dog column "that interprets barks with a bite." The Post, which had more than doubled its circulation to 750,000 by returning to print three weeks before the others, made little effort to match its rivals' fancy footwork and slipped quietly back to third in the three-paper P.M. race...
...Diego woman recorded in her Audilog that she kept her radio going most of the day, and "my dog enjoys it as much as a dog can." Nielsen's research division manager, Henry Rahmel, explained: "We don't count dogs in our au-'dience sample," but admitted that the entry was counted...