Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turkey dinner-buy dinner, that is, for Meleagris gallapavo, the American wild turkey. The offer comes from the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, where as many as 650 wild ducks, geese and turkeys peck through 200 Ibs. of corn, oats, wheat and high-protein dog food at a sitting...
...also happy? Yes and no. He finds that adulation is a kind of prison, his young fans' love not far removed from hostility. When he was shooting Saturday Night in Brooklyn, the teen-agers would try to coax him out of his trailer as they might a caged dog-by rocking it back and forth...
...land. Venture into there at my size and I'm taking a chance with my life. I also stay out of the way of those vicious pulling guards. When one of them makes contact, I go down low like a bulldog after a larger dog...
...ground. He carefully provides the dimensions of the Yukon River cabins he visits, often numbering and describing the items of furniture in them. He lists some 30 uses that Alaskans have found for 55-gal. drums, describes how contemporary miners pan for gold and tells how to operate a dog sled up a hill. The dozens of Alaskans he sought out and listened to come trailing clouds of particulars. McPhee can capture a character with the economy of a good short story writer: "Harry is the kind of man who shakes Tabasco on his beans...
...housekeeper gives us a fat bundle of bills for the trip back which I cannot return. I am told that for him cash is like dog food. He is trying to be nice to us. We finish breakfast and leave, apologizing profusely for all the trouble we have caused...