Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR, by Marguerite Duras. An early novel that tells a shaggy-dog story about a mysterious woman, rich and beautiful, who roams the seven seas looking for a long-lost lover...
...Cambridge City Council appropriated $10,600 to finance the training of the dogs, and to pay $50 a week extra to each patrolman working with a dog...
There are no specific plans to use any of the dogs--probably as many as five in all-around Radcliffe, Grainger explained. But there is a possibility, he added, "there will be a patrol car with a dog up there once the dogs are trained...
...weren't for Swifty a dog race would be little different from a race between eight midget horses. Instead of the classic "They're off!" and the clanging bell soon drowned in the thunder of hooves you hear "Theeeere goes SWIFty!!" and a white, shiny, stuffed, vulgar mechanical rabbit on the end of a pole whirs in front of the hounds, who scramble after in mad pursuit...
Others stick to "scientific" betting, putting money on the longest odds. There are enough of these number-watchers to keep the boards jumping as much as from 70 to 1 to 9 to 5 on the same dog in five minutes. An Italian longshoreman plays for big stakes: he puts $2 on the #1 dog in the first race. If he wins, he puts $2 on the #2 dog in the next race. If he wins again, he returns to the #1 dog with $2 in the third race, and so on. But any time he loses, he doubles...