Word: labrador
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...started on Oct. 10 when I.R.A. bombers blasted a bus carrying Irish Guards to their barracks, killing two civilian bystanders, injuring 22 soldiers and 16 other people on a Chelsea street. A week later, Lieut. General Sir Steuart Pringle, 53, commandant general of the royal marines, put his black Labrador, Bella, in the back seat of his red Volkswagen to take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea victims, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...smooth devaluation was possible only with the cooperation of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was Mitterrand's guest last week. Accompanied by the President's black labrador, Nil, the two leaders looked like a pair of country squires as they ambled along the wooded lanes near Mitterrand's country home in Latche, south of Bordeaux. If they walked with a lighter step, it was perhaps because recently each had cause to help the other. Mitterrand was grateful to the Chancellor for supporting the devaluation, which imposes stiffer competition upon West German business. For his part, Schmidt...
...youngest Berry and almost too painful to mention. He plunges into the Atlantic with his mother and Sorrow, the stuffed remains of the family's old, flatulent Labrador retriever. It is the first object that pops to the surface after the crash. Hence another refrain, "Sorrow floats," repeated throughout the book...
...sign on the garage at the top of t he road reads THE DOG BITES. He does, too, under the name of Stranger, part shepherd, part Husky, part senile. One whiff of the garage where Stranger lies dreaming is enough to realize who probably inspired Sorrow, the old Labrador...
...Valley town has one resident it does not want: a ski-masked white man who has entered eight or more homes, usually just after the husband has left for work in the morning, and raped at least two women. Joann Orndorff, 33, white, was saved when her German shepherd-Labrador retriever, Tippy, attacked the rapist. Mrs. Orndorff, like a score of other Strasburg women, now owns a handgun...