Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure it, I was a sure thing, there was no way they could pass me by. Unless...unless some running dog, some lick-spittle cur told them about the time I instigated last year's "how come there is no hot water in the showers" locker room revolt. "Death to the fascist imperialist coaches," I had cried, and now I am paying the price for my insubordination...I've been blackballed...
...shame Joe Campos Torres was not a dog or cat. If he had been one, I am sure the Humane Society and the community of Houston would have sought and achieved justice...
Geralds' case has prompted soul-searching on the part of legislators, who have suddenly discovered that they are a very fallible lot. Another legislator, also a Democrat, has admitted to receiving $5,000 from a dog-racing promoter in early 1977, eleven weeks before introducing a bill to legalize that sport. He has been asked to resign, but has not done...
Schorer was born in a provincial Midwestern town where he grew up in the gloomy atmosphere of a tightly-knit German immigrant community. Memories of grisly scenes such as a hanging, or even the dying of his injured dog provide a bleak background for the short stories. Without any annoying psychoanalysis Schorer portrays his raging father and his suicidal mother. Even though his history provides him plentiful opportunities for melodrama, the adult Schorer distances himself as much as possible from his boyhood emotions. He brusquely emphasizes the disadvantaged perspective of a child whose ignorance left the most important questions about...
Bombs at Bay, or the Dog that has not Barked so Far: Reflections on the Avoidance of Nuclear War Since 1945--McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation and former dean of the Faculty, auditorium of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity...