Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flew, and, by 1973, here stood Winifred Bundy wondering what to do. She had flirted with the notion of opening a bookshop, but lacked capital. Then it was that her husband, a soft touch, took in two horrid German shepherds to board while the owners went to Europe. The dogs tormented the horses until a mare reached her limit and kicked out one dog's eye. When the owners returned, Winifred presented them with a $600 bill for feed and the veterinarian. Those funds stocked two shelves of books in her alcove. She was in business...
Franklin Roosevelt's romance over the years with Lucy Mercer had a wistful sweetness about it. John Kennedy was ridiculously incautious to get involved with Judith Exner, the girlfriend of a Mafia don. Kennedy's sex drive may have been a healthy creature, a sleek dog that needed to run in the woods, but it struck some as too healthy, edging toward obsession...
...format could define dance in a new way." Now his privations really began, and he records them with deep feeling and baleful gusto. Home was usually a wretched flat, cold water or no water. One chapter starts off with "snow sifting gently through the roof." In extremis he ate dog food...
When Baker mutters, "This dog won't hunt," the old hands around him know that is the end of an idea. His other favorite phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is equally unspectacular but equally meaningful for the Baker crew. It means stop right there, we don't want any more needless work...
...husband realizes this. Monson laughs as he tells a story about a time when he and Granite, the lead dog, had gotten into an accident and Butcher's first reaction was to ask how the dog...