Word: heel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wagged His Tail. Come dian Peter Ustinov plays a slumlord who is magically changed into a dog in this comic allegory about bringing to heel the cur within...
Vienna in the 1920s-with its coffeehouse society making a last whipped-cream stand against change, with the Franz Josef heel-clicks just receding and the Nazi jackboots faintly approaching-is both scene and protagonist of Heimito von Doderer's two-volume, half-million word novel The Demons, which was 25 years in the writing and two years in translation. The American edition contains a publisher's list of characters numbering 142, with 31 starred as principals...
Through all of Hughes's counterattack ran the indignant tone of a man wounded by ingratitude. But TWA-a dog that has learned new tricks-shows no signs of coming easily to heel again...
...post in the new national government that Ho had set up in defiance of the returning French colonial administration. "Why did you kill my brother?" asked Diem. "It was a mistake," replied Ho. "The country was all confused. It could not be helped." Angrily, Diem turned on his heel and walked...
...mythologies From heel to throat...