Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shameless publicity hound, Senator JoeMcCarthy picked victims whose prominence wouldassure him widespread coverage--and Harvard was aperfect target. For several years, McCarthy madeHarvard and Harvard professors his whipping boys...
Albert had been the emphatic voice of the New York Knicks and Rangers, the hound-dog face of NBC Sports, the favorite guest of David Letterman, and the proprietor of the most famous call in sports--Yesss! Along the way, though, he had evidently acquired some tastes and vices that clouded his judgment and apparently erased his understanding of the word no. On Feb. 12, Albert and a 42-year-old Virginia woman with whom he had had a 10-year-long sexual relationship arranged to meet at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Pentagon City in Arlington. According...
...name of this tenacious corporation, not coincidentally, is Elvis Presley Enterprises. It controls much of the half-billion-dollar global Elvis industry, strictly limiting the world's supply of singing hound-dog dolls, Heartbreak Hotel matchboxes, leather-jacketed teddy bears and pink Cadillac key chains--not to mention the Graceland mansion in Memphis, headwaters of all things Elvis. As that city licks its lips in anticipation of the 75,000 free-spending fans who are expected for the 20th anniversary of the King's death on Aug. 16, Elvis Presley Enterprises reigns supreme as the guardian, keeper and main arbiter...
...reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, almost see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus...
...hunters are interested not in cheap thrills, as alleged, but rather in the challenge of training hounds and the excitement of a fair chase with the odds in favor of a large and powerful carnivore. As in sport fishing, success in game hunting is measured in the catching of the quarry, not in its killing. Although the animal is often dispatched for human consumption, catch-and-release hunting is a common practice and a central part of the trail-hound ethic, unmatched by any other hunting sport. Our centuries-old American trail-hound tradition sets the standard for hunting ethics...