Word: handler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...
Down on the Farm. Though he is the best handler of horses now handling, Ben Allyn ("B.A.") Jones, 61, modestly claims only an abiding love for anything that neighs. He first straddled a horse at the age of four on his father's farm in Nodaway County, Mo. He used to run match races around a half-mile farm track. Very early he formulated his cardinal, cryptically simple rule of training: "Just give them what they need, whenever it looks like they need...
...competition, frogs jump from the center of a ring. A "jump" is actually three successive .leaps. Official length of the jump is the distance from the center of the ring to the final resting place. A jumping frog's handler (known as a "jockey") is forbidden to touch him after the first leap. Just before the first, the jockey is allowed to give him just one brisk flick, or tickle...
...Chips, U.S. Army dog-gallantry in action. After landing at Blue Beach Chips and his handler advanced 300 yd. inland under a flurry of flares and tracer bullets. . . . Suddenly a hidden machine gun began firing from the hut on troops on the beach. Unhesitatingly Chips wrenched the leash from his handler's hand, dashed into the hut, teeth bared, and vigorously attacked...
With Perkins gone, Henry Lamar is without the team's most powerful plunger, best ball-handler, and best passer from the fullback slot. Paul Garrity, who will move over from tailback to replace him, is about 15 pounds lighter, and has had a year less at Harvard, which makes a big difference in performing the fullback's complicated duties...