Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of the Pakistani official was ashen. Fresh from an inspection of the cyclone-ravaged coastline of the Bay of Bengal, he described the scene: "No vulture, no dog, and even no insects were to be found anywhere. Just heaps of human bodies and carcasses." More than two weeks after the storm had shrieked across the low-lying Ganges River Delta, the enormity of the havoc wrought by its 120-m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves could still only be sensed, not measured. Toward week's end, some 6,000 Ansar militiamen and volunteers trudged into the flatlands...
Compared to British children, Grub, now three, nonetheless has a few deficiencies. He cannot moo like a cow, for example, or quack like a duck. But he can imitate the soft whooping of the hyena, and when he wants to, he can sound like a lion, a wild dog, a chimp or a jackal...
Pictures of it showed a long serpent-like body with a vaguely dog-like head. Observers at the scene said it appeared that parts of the body had been torn away. Pictures also showed part of what appeared to be two fins...
What turned Nixon, the quiet reactionary, into Nixon, the mad dog? It is hard to say; quite possibly we will never find out. But whatever the reasons-psychological or otherwise-there is plenty of evidence to suggest that something has snapped in the White House...
...many travelers, a bus journey of any distance is an ordeal to be avoided, a dreary succession of tacky terminals, long lines and cramped rides in coaches that are often too hot or too cold. In recent years. Greyhound Lines, intercity busing's top dog, has made a modest effort to expunge this mangy image and reinstate the bus as a prime passenger carrier. Now, under a 40-year-old president and a group of young vice presidents, some still in their 30s, the race for improvement is being speeded...