Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dog Days...
...amazes me that people so well versed on nuclear power, marine biology and air composition cannot see their own hypocrisy in owning a dog in New York City [July...
...vigorous debate. One of the most vociferous opponents is a Democrat who is frequently sympathetic to Administration causes. But North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. has long been convinced that much of the measure is "as full of unconstitutional, unjust and unwise provisions as a mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after a special meeting in Chicago, expressed reservations about parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan, the mobster measure was expanded with...
...Skwentna country, setting up little tent camps and cabins along the way at about ten-mile intervals. "I've got 75 miles of trap line here. I had 125. When I got married, I'd leave home and spend each night in a different cabin with my dog team. I'd be gone twelve days, makin' about two trips a month. But it was too much. As my responsibilities at home got more, I had to cut some of the line out, so I sold about 50 miles of it. Now, with the snowmobiles, I hardly...
Before the advent of the snow machine, Joe used dog teams. But they were a problem. You had to feed them. Prior to statehood, which brought tight restrictions on fishing, Delia and a partner fed their dogs on salmon fished from the Skwentna River and Eight-Mile Creek. "We used to put fish nets in the rivers and cricks and get maybe 2,500 to 4,500 salmon, just to feed our teams. But then the state fish and game people stopped us from usin' the fish wheel. Then they stopped us from usin' nets, and then they...