Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caring. Complimentary term meaning affectionate but not too demanding. A man who has a dog is a caring person. Commitment. The ultimate goal: he is ready to live with her, if she can put up with the dog, and vice versa. If one still wants to flirt, one is "not ready to make a commitment." Communicate. To speak earnestly about various aspects of the commitment. When he breaks off the argument about the dog and starts silently but noisily washing the dishes, he is "not communicating." Depersonalized. A term of dislike, as in "You have become depersonalized. You forgot...
Medical researchers can continue using greyhounds in experiments because the state legislature last week decided not to act on a bill which would have restricted the dog...
Researchers could breed greyhound dogs specifically for experiments if the greyhound bill is passed. Hunt estimated that it would cost Harvard $600 to raise a single dog...
Nora Astorga seemed perfectly cast as the Mata Hari of the Sandinista revolution, and she played the game of seduction and betrayal with deadly ease. First, she caught the roving eye of General Reynaldo ("the Dog") Pérez Vega, second ranking officer in Nicaragua's notorious National Guard. Then, one night in March 1978, Astorga lured the smitten general to her home. After sending his bodyguard off to buy rum, she drew Peérez into her bedroom and disarmed him. The general undoubtedly thought he was in for a special night; he was. At that moment, five...
...troubled region. On a state visit to Washington last week, the Irish leader urged Americans not to make "common cause for any purpose, however speciously well meaning, with people who advocate or condone the use of violence in Ireland for political ends." One of those people, Dominic "Mad Dog" McGlinchey, 29, Ireland's most wanted terrorist, was captured after a shootout with police near Shannon Airport on St. Patrick...