Word: froze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dead Quail, No. Within five minutes Brownie froze in a perfect point. He stood unflinchingly as his professional trainer, a quiet, rawboned outdoorsman named George Evans, dismounted and fired a shotgun in the air. Quail drummed up out of the grass (birds are not killed at out-of-season trials), and Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest...
...authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing city in the world, a distinction it lost to Chicago when the Civil War froze Southern markets...
Voutov was sent packing. Heath was ordered home. For good measure, the U.S. froze the dollar assets not only of Bulgaria but of two other little Red hens in the Soviet front yard-Rumania and Hungary...
...biggest prize. Here it had not yet been decided whether man or bear was the crown of creation." But polar man knew a pretty sure way to kill polar bear. After spotting his game, he hid a tightly coiled splint of whalebone in a ball of blubber, froze it intact, and bowled it across the snow to the bear. After a few suspicious licks, the hungry bear usually gulped it down. Soon the blubber melted, releasing the coiled splint and wounding the bear. In the second phase of the hunt, the bear loped off in pain, dropping bloody dung which...
...China was concerned, State Department Mimeograph machines could churn out legal opinions until the Amazon froze without altering one fact: recognition of the Reds would be received through the world as a major change in U.S. policy, with enormous gain of "face" for Peking. It was the kind of problem honest men differed on: the influential Far Eastern division in State wanted to recognize; so far, Harry Truman was against. Most Congressmen who had spoken up at all were also against recognition. These were the arguments...