Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph F. Thomas, the City's dog officer, has finished out of the money in each of the last three school committee races. He is unlikely to improve his finish, mainly because he must compete with Committeeman Fitzgerald for East Cambridge votes...
...previously coded them with. He never actually did this, of course, but then again neither did I; I had planned to identify the returned questionnaries with inconspicuous pencil dots. I recently talked to a graduate of Lowell House who said that he planned to use slightly torn or dog-eared corners. If you're reading this with your heart sinking down into your intestines, just remember that you wouldn't really have done it either; there are very few new ideas in this world...
Grandma doesn't buy the book for her grandson. She sends $4.49 plus postage and handling and fills in a computer card. The kid's name, street number and birth date, and the name of his sister, brother, dog, cat (or other pet) and friend. Let's say Tommy Snooks of 123 Hickory Stick Lane, with Sister Bunny, Brother Spiro, Dog Tuggles, Cat Snuggles, etc. Eventually, from Dart Industries, Inc., which, as the card says, "also brings you Tupperware, Rexall, Vanda Beauty Counselor and West Bend brand family products," comes a book...
...young," he said, with what can only be described as a soulful leer. "When I was your age you had to wine and dine a girl for a year before you could get into her. But today! You just take her down to the Square for a hot dog and then back...
...Willy Brandt and fictional events in Danzig during the Third Reich--all wrapped up under the pretext of being an explanation to the author's children. But then the author does not look like at first a likely candidate for greatness either. There is a little bit of shaggy dog about his longish brown hair and moustache, and his burly build reminds one of his days as a stone cutter--he made grave stones, like little Oskar in The Tin Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began to write. He deliberately rolls a cigarette while answering questions...