Word: dogtrotted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve Knowland his orange juice, eggs, toast and coffee. It is always a working breakfast, once a week with White House Legislative Aide Jerry Persons, other mornings with Cabinet officers or sleepy-eyed Senators. Then, with the giant stride that often forces his companions to a dogtrot, Knowland plunges onward into his day. That day continues even after he arrives home with what Helen Knowland calls his "bulging 20-lb. briefcase." Says she: "He opens that old briefcase, spreads papers all over the place, gets on the telephone, and in minutes the room looks as if a whirlwind had struck...
...Chicago and saw Candidate Adlai Stevenson being gouged and elbowed and jostled in the howling platform mob, Harry Truman was in his glory. Before the week was out, Truman had left candidates' headquarters heaped with bitten fingernails and transformed the 1956 Democratic National Convention from a drab dogtrot into a race of rare and exhilarating drama...
...jeep, truck or tank down the roads, looking for mine or ambush before the buses and beer trucks and handcarts can travel, before the long lines of patient and straw-hatted coolie women, bamboo poles on their shoulders and heavy burdens hanging at each end, can begin their incessant dogtrot down the roadside...
...eyed dynamo type with deceptively sleepy eyelids, carefully slicked hair, is a man of extraordinary talents. Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker. As Joe's committee counsel, he moves around the room at a dogtrot, speaks like a machine gun. He is relentless with witnesses, scornful of weaknesses, nerveless before criticism, and contemptuous of all Senators on the subcommittee save McCarthy. With good reason, Joe calls Roy Cohn "the most brilliant young fellow I have ever...
...mistake about it-these guys are tough; they are just as tough as the Japanese." The officer supplied some specifics. "The Korean Communists," he said, "can start marching at daybreak, march all day and all night, and then attack in the morning. We've seen them run-not dogtrot, but run-up a 1,500-foot hill. Our men just can't do tricks like that...