Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Friend. In Bradford-on-Avon, England, Thomas Musty complained that when he offered a biscuit to the dog that had bitten him the previous day, the dog ate the biscuit and bit him again...
...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
...This is a case of man-bites-dog," said Louisville's surprised Bishop Charles Clingman. Instead of sending out a missionary to drum up a congregation and some money, here were congregation, money and building looking for a minister. How about the bishop's son, the Rev. Robert Clingman, who was visiting his father at the time...
...sufferers was the takahe (Notornis hochstetteri), a bird 18 inches tall with a bronze-green breast and rudimentary wings. According to Maori tales, it had once made plentiful good eating, but only four were ever killed by white men. One was dragged out of the bush by a dog in 1898 and sold to the New Zealand government for $1,000. That was the last; for 50 years the takahe was officially extinct...
...Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...