Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, said Iraq's desire to "make clear that it is the top dog in the Persian Gulf" is the "root cause" of the spreading border conflict...
...introduced unbranded products to the U.S., has had a 10% increase in sales on 85 of them. Its parent, Chicago's Jewel Companies Inc., now has 170 such items in its stores, and the company claims that almost all customers buy some of them. Favorites: paper products and dog food. Savings can be substantial. A 32-oz. bottle of no-brand ketchup normally costs 89?, as compared with about $1.30 for nationally advertised brands. Doris Brown, a Chicago house wife with two children, says, "Whenever I can, I buy generic items-bathroom tissue and soda for the kids...
...DOG DAYS of this enervating campaign, it has become fashionable to gaze wistfully north and draw analogies to Canada. Former presidential candidates such as Sen. Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) have called for a shortened campaign, referring to the recent Canadian elections. In the space of a few months, Baker noted, one government fell, a federal election was conducted, and a new government installed--while American hopefuls were focusing on the New Hampshire primary. Of course, the parallel breaks down; in Canada, the party leaders were firmly in place and had only to face each other, a mere nine months...
...novelist of modest reputation before turning to the essay (Cat Man in 1956 and The Circle Home in 1960), Hoagland has spent much of his childhood and adult life as a stutterer. ("Being in these vocal handcuffs made me a devoted writer at twenty. I worked like a dog, choosing each word.") Hoagland's style is consonant with the idea that the essay is a variety of "conversational writing." Unshackled, Hoagland converses recklessly, wildly, an abundance of critical detail and blinding enthusiasm fueling his abrupt transitions from present to past, subject to self, city to countryside. As Hoagland charges about...
...football team, 3-6 last year, returned to Cambridge to begin training August 28 as the dog days of summer faded into the red dog days of autumn...