Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the cities in East Texas, there are roughly two kinds of people-men who love the sound of a bugle hound and plenty of foxes to chase,* and the farmer-rancher kind, who would rather see all foxes dead. Feeling ran hot in Henderson County when some foxes got rabies, bit cattle, dogs, children; one jumped on a man's neck. A dozen rabid cows were reported, and many more had died under suspicious circumstances; 47 people had had to take anti-rabies shots. Anti-fox petitions poured in on County Judge James ("Turkey") Spencer...
Gerrards Cross, Bucks, England ¶ To date, the Long Island horse & hound set has supplied the principal U.S. demand...
...mice are no longer bit-players merely to be hitched to the pumpkin but full-blown Disney creations, scampering and squealing through the whole story in a chivalrous conspiracy to help Cinderella. Their fellow conspirators include birds, an amiable barnyard nag and a hound named Bruno, who is clearly a close relative of Pluto. Other new characters: a monocled, silly-ass grand duke and the villainous Lucifer, a spoiled, airily arrogant...
...highbrows of the breakfast population, Post's 40% Bran Flakes have started a book service. Twenty-five cents and the box top bring Bantam editions of classics like "Hound of the Baskervilles." Perhaps this is a sign of coming cultural sophistication in the cereal box field. The boxes, after all, next to newspapers, are probably the most widely read breakfast table publications in the country. Someday, perhaps, each cereal will publish a daily edition, imprinted with dispatches from Battle Creek, reproductions of works of the masters, and scores to great pieces of music. And in that day, American culture will...
...protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...