Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concrete road by watching for traces of footprints in "little stringers" of wind-blown sand. Though he shares such knowledge happily, he has found that tracking and desert work require a patience that is disappearing from America. He has camped out for weeks at desert airstrips with his dog Baron. "It's hard to keep the younger guys staked out like that," he laments. "They're gung-ho at the start, but two trips out is about all they can take...
...husband actually had not tried very hard to get rid of the ducks and had been showing up at the house daily to feed them. Added her lawyer: "There are still 35 of them, and that doesn't include the duckling that got stepped on by the family dog and died." Robert's attorney, Leon Jumes, said of his client: "It's against his nature to destroy these ducks." The judge sentenced Robert to seven days in jail for contempt of court but stayed the punishment for a week, giving him one more chance to get quacking...
...Harpo Marx. Strider is a piebald gelding and, because of that, very infra dig. Metaphorically, he is a Russian serf in a land where serfdom, at all unhappy times, seems endemic. Yet all men are serfs of some sort, as Tolstoy points out. And every serf, like every dog, does have his glorious days. For Strider, the first is a fling at love with a filly fatale (Pamela Burrell), an adventure for which he is gelded. The second is a horse race in which he wins his master's bet for him. His master is Prince Serpuhofsky (Gordon Gould...
...asked to play God in these cases, and you can't be God. The touchstone is 'the best interests of the child.' Isn't that a lovely phrase? What does it mean?" Criminal sentencing sometimes sends him walking around town, "chewing on it like a dog with a bone. You drop it and pick it up again and chew...
...even a purebred dog like a Doberperson pinscher or a Gerperson shepherd. So how does a mutt like Benji, though he is a movie star, get to be named co-chairperson of a humans' charity committee? It seems that the Marine Corps Reserve, launching its 32nd Toys for Tots campaign to provide Christmas gifts for underprivileged children, thought that dressing Benji in a space suit might lure more contributions. Television's Love Boat captain, Gavin MacLeod, agreed to be Benji's co-chairperson, ignoring the vaudeville maxim, never follow a dog act. "Listen," said MacLeod...