Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been an admirer of Howard Hughes since he had produced Hell's Angels, but had not met him until 1938 when Hughes was getting ready for his four-day, round-the-world flight. As the dashing, disheveled Hughes puttered around his plane, Damon, like any awed autograph hound, rushed up and introduced himself. They had since become friends. Said Damon: "I am a great admirer of Howard Hughes." Said Hughes: "Mr. Damon's reputation ... is such that any airline would be fortunate to obtain his services...
Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...
This time, the Irish hound romped off with the cup and the $6,000 first prize...
...than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World War I comes along, and nearly kills himself treating the town's poor...
Press Aide Charlie Ross watched with his sad hound-dog expression. Clark Clifford, preoccupied, scratched his chin. The conference ended...