Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vellucci declared that the dispute over manager had become a "drag 'em out ... dog eat dog" battle, and proposed that the nine councillors convene privately and agree to let Curry stay on until a suitable successor had been found. The DeGuglielmo majority voted this proposal down, and later, when Councillor Mahoney made a similar motion, it was also defeated...
...captured by a troop of German soldiers and forced to witness the brutalization of some partisans they have captured. A little later, just as he is about to make love to the gorgeous ghost, he is seized by a powerful Negro who sometimes wears the mask of Anubis, the dog-faced divinity of ancient Egypt. Roped to a bed, he is injected with a mysterious drug...
...shift grew out of a split in Syria's ruling Pan-Arab Baath Party between General Salah Jadid, leader of a powerful clique of pro-Peking officers, and Strongman General Amin Hafez, top dog in Syria since 1963. At the Casablanca conference of Arab leaders last September, Hafez pledged Syria to an agreement not to meddle in other states' internal affairs. Objecting, the Jadid group blamed a "right-wing reactionism" for the moderating tendencies in other Arab nations, argued for Syrian leadership to restore the "progressive Arab socialist outlook...
...picture shows the bedroom where Lincoln died, before it had been put in order. There is a shot of the Lincoln family dog, a yellow mongrel named Fido. The most startling picture of all (see below) proves that John Wilkes Booth and five of his fellow conspirators were present at Lincoln's second inauguration. Booth, standing on a balcony behind the speaker's stand, could easily have shot Lincoln as he spoke...
Author Mackay, a 21-year-old British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that might be called the Sad Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero...