Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black co-workers invited him to bring his Bible and give a sermon at their church. "You could see there was something haywire even at that time," says Swift. But Mrs. Kennedy's daughter Thelma Manning remembers Jones more fondly: "He had a little white shaggy-haired dog. They were inseparable. I want people to know Jim Jones had a good side...
...charges outlined against Thorpe were certainly bizarre. According to the prosecution, Thorpe had conspired to murder a former homosexual lover, a down-and-out male model named Norman Scott, 37; Thorpe was said to have argued that killing Scott would be no worse than "shooting a sick dog...
...Alfred Summers, 30, who spent more than three days buried alive in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Joplin, Mo., last week was thankful that a trained German shepherd sniffed him out. Workers began digging where the dog indicated, and soon Summers' muffled voice was heard calling for help. He will eat Thanksgiving dinner in a hospital -but in satisfactory condition...
...Christina said something that "struck at some volcanic trauma in the center of her being that erupted with a violence, a hatred and a suddenness that plunged both of us into an instantaneous struggle for survival. She leaped off the counter and grabbed for my throat like a mad dog. I lost my footing and fell to the floor, hitting my head on the ice chest as I went down. The choking pain of her fingers around my throat met the thudding ache of the blow to the back of my head ... Her mouth was twisted with rage...
...YEARS ago horror stories about the elderly flooded the national media. Pictures of retirees heading for the dog food section of the supermarket surfaced and a cry went out that the nation's social security system was going bankrupt. The cries are mute now, but the state of the nation's retirement income system remains a primary concern for the federal government, the increasing numbers of recipients of old age benefits, and the future contributors to the system...