Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apple. Hoping to rid New York of a canine breed favored by dope dealers because of its alleged propensity to clamp its powerful jaws on humans, Commissioner Stephen Joseph has proposed to the city's board of health that pit bull owners be required to have their dogs tattooed, muzzled in public, insured for a minimum liability of $100,000 and, yes, photographed for city records. If Joseph's proposal becomes part of the city code, no new pit bulls will be allowed on New York streets after the existing ones die. But opposition to any restriction on a specific...
...Jenkins, a Cambridge resident who has walked his dog in the Radcliffe Yard for the past 10 years, is appointed president of Radcliffe College. "We looked everywhere, and we just couldn't find a qualified woman," explains President...
Barbara may spoil the dog, but she criticizes George for not disciplining the kids enough. She still posts the rules of conduct on the doors at Kennebunkport in case anyone has forgotten them. The kids agree that their mother ruled the court of common pleas while George rode the circuits and was brought in only for major infractions...
...already has so many, in part as a result of events in her own life. Her son Neil's dyslexia first got her interested in fighting illiteracy. In 1984 she wrote a book, C. Fred's Story, a surprisingly wry look at Washington life as told by her first dog, after publisher Nelson Doubleday assured her it would be a good way to promote her literacy efforts. C. Fred could have been a disaster, but Barbara's wit and candor made it work. "I didn't have to squeeze it out of her. There was no ghostwriter," says editor Lisa...
...ready for a First Lady who does her own hair, buys clothes off the rack, speaks her mind, teases her husband, and walks the dog in her bathrobe...