Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dog Dinner. Apart from that, and Hanoi's natural decision to ban him from military areas, Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes...
...exodus of business from the ghettos. In Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and some other cities, many merchants whose stores were looted, vandalized and burned started pulling out. Most of them say they are leaving for good. "You can't get insurance around here," says Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store for 34 years. "Anyone who reopens or rebuilds in this neighborhood must be crazy," says Sheldon...
ELVIS PRESLEY: It would be hard to devise any theory of criticism in which the number one position would go to anyone but Elvis. His influence on those who followed cannot be underrated: his hip-swinging set the style for performance, and the hard-driving toughness of Hound Dog and Treat Me Nice spawned a whole generation of imitations, from Fabian, Sal Mineo, and Joey Castle to Conrad Birdie. Only the Everly Brothers can match Elvis's dual line of songs--distinct yet composed of the same ingredients--that both define the pinnacle. Don't Be Cruel, Blue Suede Shoes...
...blending thirds and Nashville nasality give them perhaps the only sound in rock that can carry with genuineness, distinctiveness and positive effect into the field of Christmas carols. As with Elvis, Don and Phil's records were consistently two-sided, with the uptempo line of Bye, Bye Love, Bird Dog, Claudette, Wake Up Little Susie, Problems and Poor Jenny balancing the ballads: Love Of My Life, Devoted to You, Crying in the Rain, Love Hurts, Don't Aks Me To Be Friends, Maybe Tomorrow...
Sand, sea and sky are an essay in greys, the water blackest. Syllables flow from our throats, ours and mine, but I am shamed by the distant hot dog man whose trousers reach almost to the armpits. He has no chest or stomach, in fact, no body...