Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salesman. In Seattle, Insurance Agent James Henderson finally succeeded in selling James Ladd a personal-liability policy, began to collect on it after being bitten next day by Ladd's dog...
...driven a mile, he felt that he was being surrounded. He turned off into a side street. It came to a dead end. He stopped the car, got out, leaped over a fence and started across lots, carrying the canvas moneybag. A bulldog-a creaky, cross 13-year-old dog named Buggs-ran out toward him, growling. Fox lost his head completely. He kicked viciously at the dog's head. Then he ran in panic...
...dog's mistress, a solid, grey-haired woman named Mrs. Frank Goldfuss, looked out an upstairs window, saw him, called for her husband. The couple ran downstairs, backed out their car, drove around the block and intercepted the robber. "You hurt our dog," screamed Mrs. Goldfuss. "I'm going to call a cop." Fox yanked out his pistol, aimed it at her, pulled the trigger. It failed to fire. Goldfuss leaped out and jumped...
...like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...
...this parting paternal advice from Columbia University's President Dwight Eisenhower, 29 students from Europe and the Middle East set off on a tour of the U.S. During the next 24 days, they slept in farmhouses and penthouses, ate at Antoine's in New Orleans and hot-dog stands along the road. They wore beanies saying "Welcome to Amarillo," collected cowboy hats and corncob pipes, celebrated Bastille Day in Mississippi. They appeared on 30 radio programs, traveled 6,180 miles, posed for pictures with local mayors and circus freaks, sang Chattanooga Choo Choo in Chattanooga, saw sausages, newspapers...