Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panama Canal? The canal is on the way to obsolescence. By the year 2000, when Panama takes over, it will be no more than a quaint monument to a time when we Americans could do anything. And the Panamanians will have nothing more han the popcorn and hot dog concessions at this museum...
...going to be tough, and then this helped rally the stock market. Carter grinned, turned to others and said, "Bob has already learned what makes the stock market go up and down." Strauss is not sure he has learned that, but he thinks that like a good hunting dog he can sniff out inflation-even in a doctor's office. "If we can get the hospital-cost containment bill out of Congress, we can do some good," he declared...
...orders (cost: $7,000 for a compact Fiat 127, $30,000 for a Rolls-Royce). Some 400 firms have assembled a private army of 20,000 security men and women who hire out as bodyguards to wealthy clients for $115 to $230 a day each. Even having a guard dog requires a major investment: a trained German shepherd sells for $5,740, and last year Italians bought $7 million worth of them. Though kidnaping insurance is banned by law, many industrialists carry "K" risk policies written in Britain and West Germany (premium: $40,000 a year for $1 million coverage...
Bundy, former dean of the Faculty and special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for national security, spoke on "Bombs at Bay, or the Dog That Has Not Barked So Far: Reflection on the Avoidance of Nuclear War Since 1945," to an audience of about 100 people at the Harvard Yenching Institute...
...MORNING was dark and drizzly, ugly in a way that only New York can be. Snarling people, filthy streets, dog shit everywhere. Three cups of coffee hadn't done much for the head. Still bleary-eyed, still in a fog, still feeling the pitchers of beer from the night before. Groping my way down Broadway, wondering why the hell I was heading to the Museum of Modern Art to see Guernica and the rest for the hundredth time...