Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish bites. One Midwestern fisherman has trained a dog to rally round the flag and bark whenever it goes up, thus allowing its owner to concentrate on his poker game...
Francois would not hurt anyone. He cried one whole afternoon when Aida, our dog, was killed. His tears ran in zig zags down his crooked little face. But fear and anger mean war, for him, and war means airplanes and bombs and tanks and a volcano of fire...
...week denounced a rival guru: self-styled divinity Maharaj Ji, 16, now counseling his disciples in California. The ascetic swami, whose followers constitute a kind of saffron-robed Hindu version of the Salvation Army, began by saying, "You've got to decide whether he is God, or a dog." Noting the young leader's luxurious life style, the swami declared rather ominously, "He is cheating people, but he will be cheated in a bigger way. When God meets cheats, he can be a better cheat than they...
...cross country run, with Dartmouth's own Tim Caldwell the heavy favorite, was run Thursday at Holderness Academy, forty miles to the north. Only the carefully prepared 40-meter jump will be held at the Carnival site on Saturday. The figures of Walt's mouse and duck and dog, lately sold as decals on t-shirts and coffee mugs, will be fitting monuments to this bad luck, disjointed season, to the spread out modern carnival...
...while the theoreticians continued their great and noisy debate, the technicians quietly gave us the beginnings of a counterforce capability. No policy decision was ever made in favor of counterforce, but the capability continued to grow. The forces began to determine the strategy; the tail began to wag the dog...