Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they feel they can express themselves." One immigrant recalls her frustration with not being able to communicate with the people around her. "When I started to speak, I started to understand. This took more than a year. Without language, I couldn't tell anyone anything, I felt like a dog. But when I started to speak with people, I found that I often knew the same things, I had the same feelings about things...
With the exception of a few weeks' vacation after the bowl games have been won and the new recruits signed, Bryant works year round at football. He likes to go to a dog-racing track near Tuscaloosa run by his only son, Paul Jr., a successful businessman who likes football but never played the game. The Bryant football tradition is kept alive by Marc, 17, the only son of Bryant's daughter, Mae Martin Tyson. When Marc injured his knee and required surgery last season, the grandfather was openly worried: "I wonder if everybody expects too much...
...adventure begins in 1974, when Elizabeth and her husband Bob take part of their $18,000 nest egg and buy a three-acre island on Stuart Lake in British Columbia. Maneuvering a leaky river boat, the young Americans arrive in midsummer with a dog, a cat, their worldly possessions and high hopes: "We dreamed of making a permanent home in the wilderness, apart from the forces we thought were destroying and polluting the world." One of the first things they learn is that building a house from scratch is no way to cure materialism: "I have never in my life...
...sweep" the conference room, but Douglas remained suspicious, since he thought the FBI probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last hound dog had stopped snapping at my heels." Sick and in pain, he did finally outlast Nixon. When he left the high court in 1975, he had served 36 years, longer than any other Justice in U.S. history...
Patient: Doctor, I think that I'm a dog. Doctor: How long have you felt this way? Patient: Ever since I was a puppy...