Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dog Eat Dog. Doctors now think that perhaps as many as a third of the 7,500,000 joint-sore U.S. victims of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases have trouble that is primarily "psychogenic," i.e., caused by the emotions. The pain is just as real as if the victim had a physical form of the disease; sometimes the psychogenic rheumatic has inflammations and changes in the blood that show up in laboratory tests, and sometimes not-just as victims of psychosomatic stomach trouble sometimes have ulcers that can be seen in X rays, sometimes have nothing at all to show...
...psychologically distinct type of person. Psychiatrist Alfred O. Ludwig of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital gave the rheumatologists a composite character sketch: the psychogenic rheumatic is insecure, dependent on others but denies his dependence, has trouble adjusting to changes. He finds the world a hostile, dog-eat-dog place, reacts to it violently, but suppresses his emotions; he is sensitive, resents control, drives himself too hard. Said Dr. Ludwig: such patients "do not think in terms of live & let live, but rather of devour or be devoured...
...Book-of-the-Month Club set Cheaper off by picking it as a dual selection (with Fred Gipson's Hound-Dog Man) and distributing 250,000 copies. In five months Publisher Crowell has sold an additional 150,000 copies and reports that customers are still carrying it out of bookstores at the rate of 5,000 copies a week. Twentieth Century-Fox paid out $100,000 for the screen rights...
These are the dog days of the crew season, when exam period and a long gap between races combine to give Newell boathouse an unwonted air of manorial gloom. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, usually a time of crowded confusion, Coach Bolles could be found sitting alone in his upstairs office, poring over the records of his former crews...
Chemical Warfare. In Milwaukee, Landlord Oswald Hemmerling, suing to evict Tenant Charles Baumgartner, charged that Mrs. Baumgartner fed garlic to the Hemmerlings' dog...