Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winter played none of his slower, more delicate songs, but instead used some old hits, more familiar and just as pulsating. Drummer Chuck Ruff stepped down to sing and dance "Hound Dog" and bass player Dan Hartman led "My Generation" as well as his own "Free Ride...
...policeman on the prowl for a much older suspect. An upper-middle-class housewife, wearing only a nightgown and housecoat, was dragged from her home, thrown down a flight of concrete stairs, handcuffed and belabored with obscenities by a police sergeant who claimed that she had urged her dog to attack him. During a family sidewalk fracas, a pregnant woman was pounded about the abdomen by a patrolman; although the woman has four other normal children, the infant born after that beating has a drooping eyelid, a bone protruding from his chest and a congenital heart defect...
...economizers lies in dividing a model's advertised cooling power, usually expressed in B.T.U.s (British thermal units), by its wattage. If a unit requires 2,000 watts to produce 10,000 B.T.U.s of cooling power, it has an efficiency rating of 5, and that means it is a dog. Running it on "high" for 24 hours a day, every day for a month, uses 1,440 kw-h., or $33 worth of power. A unit with a better rating of 8 would cost five-eighths as much in terms of kilowatts and money...
...game, he handed the umpire the appurtenance, saying, "Here, you could use another eye"; at a girl friend's house a few years later, he put the eye under his pillow, only to wake in the wee hours to the sound of crunching glass-the girl's dog had found...
...other hand, is alive, and he is at least as present in the show as his imaginary ancestor. He and Jeremiah have a good deal in common. Jim, like his great-uncle, prefers the company of his dog to membership in learned societies. Jim also shares with Jeremiah an appreciation of the purely aesthetic qualities of machinery. The workings of their engines are unfathomable, and unimportant. What matters is that they look powerful. With their gleaming metal fittings, their haloes of mysterious tubing, the no-nonsense names carefully lettered on their sides, and the earth-shaking noises they make, they...