Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, back from a long vacation, lumbered to his feet with impish gravity: "May I ask, Mr. Speaker, if it is in order for an honorable member to call another a 'dirty dog'? I should like to be authoritatively advised...
...Speaker ruled "dirty dog" out of order...
Goaded beyond endurance, the Labor M.P. for Rochdale, Dr. Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan, burst out: "You are a dirty dog...
Perro Caliente (Hot Dog), near the headwaters of the Pecos River, 9,500 feet up, was just a corral and a crude ranch house in the middle of nowhere. With a Stetson on his head and a bar of chocolate in his pocket, Oppenheimer liked to ride his horse Chico 40 rugged miles in a day, exploring the Sangre de Cristo Mountains up to the peaks. In the evenings, he would nibble on canned artichoke hearts, drink fine Kirschwasser, and read Baudelaire by the light of an oil lamp. He invented an abstruse variety of tiddlywinks, played on the geometric...
...carpet of young Kansas wheat about two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood home. This greyhound is Mount Mahan Rebel, who cost Owner George Oswald of Los Angeles $3,500 in Ireland less than a year ago. In the cup final, he met a grey and white Texas dog named Foggy Weather. While chasing a jack rabbit at 40 m.p.h., the pair of them crashed like two speeding autos side-swiping; the judges called it a "hat off" (or tie) and ordered the race run over...