Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some of the crowd had brought old-fashioned trainmen's whistles, shrill enough to make a hound bay. Nonetheless, Chéreau came out to take curtain calls, wearing blue jeans, a shiny mod belt and a patient smile. Said he later: "I was very amused at the booing...
...Everything came together in Scaramouche; the strongest moments in his other novels barely equal the weakest scenes in this book. The hero is a witty young lawyer whose best friend is skewered by an aristocratic swordsman on the eve of the French Revolution. The hero vows to hound the aristo to destruction-only to find the absolute powers of the monarchy arrayed against...
...sired by Joe Nemo; and don't, even if he's a big bruiser, bet on a former Class A dog named Chase Jones, or any hound from the Joseph Zion Kennel...
...file the names of Americans who criticized his national defense policies and supported those of Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who was then preaching isolationism. With similar Executive arrogance and in the same tradition, the Nixon Administration was installing illegal wiretaps and using the Internal Revenue Service to hound its domestic "enemies" 35 years later...
...published a series of books that expressed him utterly-completely without overburdening the already unwieldy corpus of bibliography or falling into the all too easy vanity of writing a single new line." Paladión, in short, attached his name to the works of other authors, including The Hound of the Baskervilles and the original Latin rendering of De Divinatione. "And what Latin it was!" Domecq writes. "Cicero...