Word: hitchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their first choice from the Manhattan agency failed her mandatory psychological test, which found her to be too emotionally unstable. Valerie, who was Aaron and Mandy's second choice, passed without a hitch. A vivacious woman who is an avid reader, she more than met the couple's demands for a surrogate who was "reasonably pretty," did not smoke or drink heavily and had no family history of genetic disease. Says Aaron: "We were particularly pleased that she asked us questions to find out whether we really want this child...
...Hitler's National Socialists won a plurality of seats in the German parliament. In 1932 Mussolini told his countrymen, "I foresee a long series of political, economic and military wars." And Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. And the opening ceremonies of the Olympics came off without a hitch...
...part and showed it had the mettle. Rehearsing to the strains of Fame, Fluff wheeled on a thermal, eyed Hoddy, heard the music ("I'm gonna live forever!/ I'm gonna learn how to fly!"), dive-bombed the field and hit the perch without a hitch. There was applause all around. The eagle had landed. But a vigorous press got wind of Bomber's fatal stress, and the controversy that followed sadly resulted in Fluffs being pulled from the show...
...payoff for a lifetime hitch is $400, not to the dog but to its owner. The Government does not, of course, discriminate between males and females, but equal-opportunity laws are bypassed when it comes to breeding; recruitment is limited to such watchful species as German shepherds and Rottweilers. The "military working dogs" are shipped to Texas for basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, where they learn obedience, mauling, snarling, sniffing and other suitable skills. In the new armed forces, the routine is hardly a dog's life. An animal psychologist is on hand if basic training becomes...
...times appeared to be a growing call to censure the clubs or to pressure them to admit women. But the close of the spring semester saw the clubs very much alive and, at least on the surface, well. The Fly Club's annual garden party went off without a hitch...