Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsors must be carefully screened. "We don't want to dump these refugees," says Jan Pittman, regional director of the U.S. Catholic Conference, who regularly turns down requests from those looking only for cheap Cuban help. "This isn't like going to the humane society for a dog...
Gladys had plentiful suitors with blue blood and fortunes too: the Crown Prince of Germany, three noble Romans, the venerable Duke of Norfolk, who got down on all fours at her order to play dog, and the Duke of Connaught, the late Queen Victoria's son, whom she dismissed in a letter full of "cruel and seething words...
...lessons in those days. By the time of the November hour exams I was so busy studying (and worrying that I wouldn't make it) that I forgot about becoming a clergyman. President Lowell didn't miss me, I know, because I used to meet him and his small dog walking through the Yard and he never even raised his stooped head to speak...
Having survived the hazardous voyage, they are waiting to get a medical checkup and ID cards, a cold drink and a cigarette. Several of them have dog bites, which they say they got from dogs turned loose on them by the Cuban police...
...carry "authorities," including N.H. Gov. Hugh Gallen, who shakes hands with police and townspeople all weekend and smiles benevolently at the protesters. The police, it is said, have trained for months, and been personally briefed by top state officials on the use of force. Late Saturday afternoon, a police dog without benefit of the training chases a television crew that has been allowed inside the fence and then bites a trooper on the leg. Gallen personally orders that the dog be removed...