Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year more than 2,000 frogs were sent to participate, but as a festival of American folklore, the jump developed some ugly warts. About 76,000 visitors descended on Angels Camp. There were fights, stabbings, seven auto wrecks, 21 motorcycle accidents, three dog bites. A barn was burned, fences were ruined, and 141 celebrants had to be treated for injuries. One 16-year-old sleeping in a field was run over by a car and killed. County Sheriff Russell Leach brought in 100 extra deputies and still could not keep up with the trouble. Sam Clemens might have liked...
...example by an old man's reminiscence of a night he spent in a woodshed with the local rich girl. He endlessly repeats the same fragments of his mind; her breasts, the dew on the grass, the smell of the wood chips, while he makes sassafras tea for his dog...
...more like Lanterns on the Levee, the classic clarion call to patrician Southern virtue written by Percy's uncle, William Alexander. The publisher did not think enough of the nephew's effort to submit it for the National Book Awards, but it won anyway, after a shaggy-dog sequence of events that began when the late A.J. Liebling picked the book off a New Orleans bookshop table and ended when he touted it to his wife, Jean Stafford, who was a book-award judge that year...
...tricky Agawam Hunt Club in Providence-one of Brown's home courses-proved to be too much of an advantage for the Bruin squad. "The course had a lot of tricky dog legs," said Sherman. "And one hole had a tree right in the middle of the fairway...
...Ishmael who finally finds himself alone after the disintegration of his community. To Avinga and his fellow Eskimos, the rescued white men are almost fascinatingly ugly. They refer to them as kalunait (literally, "people with the heavy eyebrows"), the legendary offspring of a wayward Eskimo girl and a sled dog. Yet they tolerate the white men's minor barbarities and breaches of courtesy with indulgent understanding...