Word: kennell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half of Houston's private homes are air-conditioned. Downtown, air-conditioned underground concourses connect air-conditioned buildings. The city is now building a $25 million sports stadium completely enclosed by a plastic dome and cooled by 6,000 tons of air-conditioning capacity. At least one dog kennel advertises air conditioning...
Dickens takes the count after approximately two minutes and 35 seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
...dogs as in Diors, fashions change from year to year, and the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show sets styles for the poochy set with no less authority than the Paris spring showing does for the best dressed. During the past six years, poodles have strutted off with Westminster's Best in Show prize four times. The result: a fabulous rise in poodle popularity. Seventh in 1956, with 25,041 American Kennel Club registrations, they have trebled in number, have been the U.S.'s most popular breed for the past two years...
...know how rare and expensive Abyssinians are; they are often taken for alley cats by the uninitiated, and thus are considered perfect status symbols for people who hate status symbols. As for Maltese and Angoras, in the peerage of the Cat Fanciers' Association (feline counterpart of the American Kennel Club), they simply do not exist; they are alley cats...
...middle of the 1954 recession, he faced Detroit reporters and came up with an analogy about the nation's unemployed that was raised as a Democratic battle cry during the year's congressional election campaigning. Said Wilson: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself. You know, one that'll get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." In 1957, when he accused the National Guard of being a haven for draft dodgers, Wilson was publicly rebuked by President Eisenhower...