Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satisfaction of victory was tempered by a $300 fine for having failed to form the proper committees and to file the right reports. Dave Darsky, who ran a losing race for the Berkley school board, contends that his sole campaign expense was maybe "a little extra dog food" for his poodle Abner, who wore a sandwich board proclaiming VOTE FOR DARSKY. HE'LL WORK LIKE A DOG FOR YOUR KIDS. But Darsky too was hit with a $300 fine. So were some 100 others who ran afoul of Michigan's ridiculously rigid 1976 campaign...
...Celtic pride. But this year only the memories are alive. The Celtics are floundering through their worst season since 1949-50 (22 wins, 46 defeats). Injuries and bad trades have been partially to blame; but the Celtics, of all teams, have been playing the kind of playground, hot-dog basketball that plagues so many clubs in the N.B.A. and mars games featuring athletes who are the best, as a group, the sport has ever known...
...meet will continue Sunday and Monday with heats and semifinals at 10 a.m., finals at 6 p.m., and diving prelims at 1 p.m. both days. Cornell and Barnard dropped out of the meet, but the remaining teams plan to arrive tomorrow by buses, trains and dog sleds...
...Feraud has the mentality of a yapping farm dog, and when his wound has healed he forces another duel. And another. There is peace between the two men only in time of war ("Duels between nations take absolute precedence," one of D'Hubert's brother officers says cynically). Feraud remains crazed with hatred, and D'Hubert, though he cannot remember the original cause of the quarrel and is quite willing to forget the feud, continues to dance to honor's tune and his adversary's whim...
...seems that the modern sports fan has to be equally proficient at reading the fine print of legal contracts and boxscores. Everyone is aware that those records contained in the dog-eared pages of newspaper boxscores are made to be broken. Events of the last week, however, have proven that, as far as sports go, the letter of the law is not made to be broken--only evaded...