Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Friend. In Springfield, Mass., police were looking for the owner of a dog that was wandering the streets with a revolver between its teeth...
Warrington, as hundreds of Marylanders know, has kept two cows for years. He kept a horse, too, and it followed him like a big dog. But it was the cows that stirred up the Government. The Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled that Warrington must pay income tax on his milk & butter money, but it wouldn't let him deduct the expense of feeding the cows...
...Besides, Mrs. Barney had got a baby-sitter and had come to watch, and Rex owed her a no-hitter (he had promised it after he pitched a one-hitter, nearly a month ago). If only the rain would stop . . . A Polo Grounds clubhouse boy handed Barney a hot dog; against his better judgment, he munched...
...almost an hour late, the tarpaulins had been hauled away. In the first inning, with only one out, Rex filled the bases with Giants-on a walk, his own error, and another walk. Between fast balls, he could still taste that hot dog. Manager Burt Shotton eyed the Dodger bullpen. Then, on a change-of-pace pitch, Willard Marshall grounded to Second Baseman Jackie Robinson for a double play...
...shake-up was Charlie Wilson's way of moving a new and younger production team into G.M.'s top spots to give G.M. new teeth for the coming dog-eat-dog competition in the automobile business. Furthermore, the team will be ready to take over completely when some of the older top executives, now close to the compulsory retirement age,* step down. (The gossip was that two or three of them would retire shortly...