Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, reported Nader, U.S. pets may actually eat better than their owners. While much food for human consumption bears no nutritional information on package labels, dog-food makers stress the nutritional value of their products. As a result, Nader said, some low-income families take to eating dog food...
...Luci Johnson Nugent told reporters that she is now a budding author. She is working on an article about her father and Yuki, the white mongrel who had the run of the White House while L.B.J. was President. "It's just a story about a man and his dog," said Luci, and then she dropped another bit of news: she and Pat are expecting their second child in late December...
...agriculture, all of the seeds of civilization were sown. Out of the sharing and reciprocity demanded by the hunt, and out of the division of labor between male and female, arose the human family. The hunter's first symmetrical weapons were the antecedents of technology. By domesticating the dog for the chase, the hunter may have opened his eyes to the possibility of domesticating the prey. "Grinding and boiling may have been the necessary preconditions to the discovery of agriculture," write Anthropologists Sherwood L. Washburn and C. S. Lancaster of the University of California's Berkeley campus...
...Florentine leather company that offers fancy quality at fancy prices. Before flying off to wed Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy stopped at Gucci's Manhattan shop to select a brown crocodile handbag. Darryl Zanuck had Gucci copy his favorite 30-year-old valise, and Capucine bought a leather dog carrier. Frank Sinatra recently sent his secretary to pick up a pair of moccasins. Other regular patrons include Rothschilds and Rockefellers, movie stars and magnates from several continents...
Howard Brubaker, on the other hand, is pushing middle age. His wife is a bitch, his son is well on the way toward becoming one of those uppermiddle class brats, and his dog really does growl at him -- on the phone, yet. Twelve years he's been married; twelve years of his live shot to hell. That's why Jack Lemmon is able to make Brubaker so much worthier an object of sympathy (or empathy, depending on your age group) than Benjamin. Braddock stumbles through situations picking up the emotional cost with a sort or moral charge plate...