Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong, or the time. I heard enough about it -that Intourist had taken a hand and got permission for the 40 contestants to run in a restricted area along the river at the foot of the Lenin Hills where Premier Kosygin, slowly followed by a black limousine, walks his dog. The runners were followed by an ambulance...
Would it hurt if I told you that in the end this is all a shaggy dog story that it turns out there was absolutely no reason to have raised the Titanic, except that it sure looks mighty fine steaming into New York Harbor? "It's just as well," Robards says when the byzanium turns out to be quarry gravel. "Someday, someone would have put this to offensive use. They would have built a byzanium bomb." Why then, he is asked, did he spend five years looking for the stuff? "If anyone was going to do it, I wanted...
...twelve hotels in which TIME was allocated space turned out to be 43 miles from Detroit in Chatham, Ont., TIME Housing Coordinator Pamela Thompson had to scramble to rent apartments and rooms in a private club closer to the action. At one hotel being considered, a vigilant watch dog named Fifi bit Rauch's assistant, Emily Friedrich. "After covering an acceptance speech or interviewing dozens of delegates, no one should have to cope with Fifi," Friedrich decided, and she struck the establishment from her list...
...Samuel Johnson, who mixed gratitude with friendship, defended a benefactor, Henry Hervey, a reprobate despised by everyone else, including Hervey's father. "If you call a dog Hervey," said Johnson to Boswell, "I shall love him." Boswell himself, though no monster, could get on Johnson's nerves, yet Johnson loved him too. His friendship for Boswell was probably based on the need for attentive company, as was Boswell's for him on the need for the approval of an elder. Such friendships between unequals are precarious, but so are all friendships. Passion cools, pleasure fades, pity...
...throw away such a nice clean can with this tight-fitting top?"). He understands the disquieting dimensions of soap ("Most of its lifetime, a cake of soap is too small . . . It's not only too small, it's sharp around the edges"). And he knows why dogs are man's best friend ("The average dog is a nicer person than the average person...