Word: fillip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walking her dog opens one of the stories. But we are quickly told that "she wanted no intimate relationship with the dog and it was strange how perfectly respectable men and women could walk dogs and think nothing of what they were involved in . . ." Then, as an added literary fillip, follows the admission, "Living demanded restraint and a constant tugging back at the leash, you never gave in, never let the dog free...