Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief Thomas J. Wat son Jr., gave voice to that belief and made a suggestion for reform. What is needed, Watson told the Detroit Economic Club, is "a system that will give the free world elbow room to grow, without these unending balance-of-payments crises that alternately hound us and Europe." He asked: "Why not create a new kind of currency backed not only by gold but also by the assets of American business abroad...
...which will be more accurate than the present Polaris and will double its firepower to about two megatons; 2) an air-launched short-range attack missile (SRAM) with a 150-mile capability, which plugs the gap between the ten-mile Bull-Pup and the 600-mi'e Hound Dog, and will increase the effectiveness of present bombers: 3) the huge C-5A cargo aircraft capable of carrying 750 soldiers and large, fast cargo ships propelled by gas turbine engines for quicker deployment of heavy military equipment; 4) large-sca'e procurement of the controversial swept-wing...
...breeders insist that hounds are even easier to handicap than horses. For one thing, there is no jockey to worry about. Greyhounds reach speeds up to 40 m.p.h. on the straightaway. They compete without regard to sex, and the winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with...
Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
...depressed by the thought that the world has downs as well as ups. "I don't want any downs,' " she bellows. "I just want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy-whom Short sees as a kind of Christ figure, a hound of heaven alternately threatening to run away with Linus' blanket and offering to Charlie Brown a tail-wagging friendship-is obsessed with a "weed-claustrophobia" that makes him a less than desirable outfielder, a fallible catcher...