Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swirled outside his cramped office, Nettleton kindled yet another cigarette, propped his scuffed cowboy boots on the desk and pondered the renegade Dallas, who's been on the loose since a jailbreak last Easter Sunday. Abruptly he blew out the match and turned, a flinty glare transforming his hound-dog eyes. The sheriff wanted Dallas, dead or alive. "If they'd bring one of his hands back from Mexico, I'd be happy, I guess," drawled the lean and lanky lawman. "I just wanta know something's been done...
...Woody Allen now? From photos you wouldn't think that old--maybe somewhere in his fifties. But after watching his new film, Radio Days, you get the feeling that Allen has aged in dog years...
...have thick, luxurious fur. Feel for yourself." Returns Flossie, "Ummm. Feels like rabbit fur to me . . . You aine no fox. You a rabbit, all the time trying to fool me." The fox spends so much time trying to convince Flossie that he is nearly undone by a dog, allowing the child to escape with her treasure intact. Rachel Isadora's warm illustrations are as sly as the characters, and they carry a valuable message first articulated by Mark Twain: "Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- WATCH THAT BASKET...
Windswept and foggy, Ocean Beach on San Francisco's Pacific side is frequented mainly by surfers and dog walkers -- and now a prospector. Engineer John O'Grady, 71, believes this desolate spot may be one of the most valuable mineral sites on the West Coast. O'Grady thinks that the sand on Ocean Beach contains tons of titanium, a lightweight metal that the U.S. uses in plane fuselages and the Soviet Union has put into submarine hulls. Ocean Beach's titanium could help supply U.S. defense needs into the next century, says O'Grady -- and, at $40 or more...
...will agree never to go bald. And naturally, I expect you to remain wrinkle free and wasp waisted until further notice from an impartial panel made up of myself, Bert Parks and my attorney. Since we own no pets, I am willing to waive the dog-poop provision. Do you think this will remove the romance from our marriage, dearest? If so, I could add a romance-preservati on codicil to the general warmth-maintenance provision. How am I doing...