Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dog Dukey is licking my arm. That probably means he likes me. Once I'm letting him do it, I must like him. But Harvard doesn't want Dukey living here, and intends to force him out within the next few days...
...picture that the authors call typically oedipal, seven-year-old Tom drew himself as a powerful speedboat, dragging his naked mother behind him. Relegating his father and the dog to the reverse side of his picture, Tom saved "the whole front page for himself and his mother...
Shepard should fit very well into Apollo 14's command seat. His ear now seems in excellent shape. "I still have a muted ringing in it, like a dog whistle," he says, "but I hardly notice it." He has also apparently mastered, in spite of initial difficulties, the split-second control techniques of the tricky lunar lander. Indeed, his confidence should help bolster all of NASA at a critical moment in its history. "I suppose," muses Shepard, "if we don't make it back to earth, somebody will say the poor son of a bitch wasn...
...unseemly conduct have left personal stings to ask a fellow judge to take his place." The decision reversed an eleven-to-22-year contempt sentence imposed by Pittsburgh Judge Albert Fiok on a defendant who had called him a "dirty son of a bitch" and a "dirty tyrannical old dog." It also seemed to apply squarely to last year's trial of the Chicago Seven. In that raucous proceeding, Judge Julius Hoffman waited until after the jury began deliberations, then declared the defendants and their lawyers in contempt and imposed sentences of as much as four years...
This is a deft little novel-and more. It is a shaggy-dog story about marijuana that will amuse potheads, yet remain palatable to middle-class matrons who wonder why Junior is both amorphous and resentful. In short, a very slick piece of work...