Word: leash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Boll, on Long Island, consoled herself with Oliver C. Le Boutillier and Captain Arthur Argles, War aces. Miss Earhart, at Trepassey, Newfoundland, admired the scenery. Both made false starts; both panted at the leash of bad weather...
...newspaper of the preparatory school can be expected to follow the path of the college paper in external and internal development will be determined by the single leash of time. It is doubtful, for instance, if the secondary school journalist would be wise in taking a book supplement upon his hands. The checkrein is tightening on extra-curricular activity all through the educational system and what is possible to the divided interests of a large college staff may be less feasible where the burden is less distributed...
...state secret out of the bag, but kept it still on leash...
...Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one William Connors yanked powerfully on the leash of his police dog, Alex, when the latter, growling savagely, made a sudden leap at a passing woman. The woman screeched, fled. The dog turned, sprang at its master who, burly, sank his fingers in the dog's throat as he was knocked flat. For six minutes man and dog writhed on the sidewalk, snapping, shouting, snarling, grunting. Then the dog groaned, fell limply over, wheezed, died. Police dog experts admitted Alex had "gone wolf...
Behind the pitching of Sanford the Red and Blue nine hit hard and timely to tally 11 runs on 12 hits. Sanford's ability to bear down in the pinches was absent in the work of the Crimson pitchers, who were unable to hold in leash the visitors hits whenever hits meant runs. Captain Tremper of Pennsylvania drove out a home run with two men on the basepaths...