Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wailing youngsters in court. The startled judge gave them 50? apiece as a soother, then turned them over to the county juvenile home. ¶ In the wooded hills near Shreveport, La., a puma was on the prowl, terrorizing the city's 125,000 residents. Heavily armed hunters and hound dogs were trying to track the beast down...
...goes, hound after hare, with the jaws of fate snapping just too late at least every other chapter, until the plague of 1630 almost takes them all. Beneath all this activity, the conventional apparatus of the romantic novel, lies the real action of Manzoni's story: the inner feeling of his people. And in this Manzoni shows himself a psychologist to stand firmly with the finest novelists of his century...
When bustling Bill Veeck (rhymes with deck) barged into Cleveland in 1946 he smilingly confessed: "I'm a publicity hound." He lured the crowds to Municipal Stadium with boogie-woogie bands, fireworks, clowns, orchids for the ladies and baby sitters for the children. Before he sold out at a reputed profit of $600,000 in 1949, his Cleveland Indians had broken attendance records and won their second pennant in 48 years. Last week Veeck popped back into the major-league picture again: he took over the doddering, anemic St. Louis Browns...
...Cadenhead's interpretation of the bombastic Bottom is certainly the most uproarious part of the play. Frequently abetted by John Benedict, Alan Purves, and a Basset Hound named Figaro, he minces, roars, seduces the fairies, and generally manages to keep the comedy on a superbly low level...
That was the last human sound for minutes. All other members of the senate responded by barking; some cried "arf," some cried "woof," and others imitated the long-drawn bugling of the redbone hound. After the last legislative yip, the presiding officer quickly ruled that the bill had passed unanimously...