Word: leash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...
...Leash." The Fair Deal, said Dulles, was a package labeled "Something for Nothing." The Brannan plan was "economic jabberwocky"; if it worked, it would be "the most amazing miracle since the loaves and the fishes." Federal aid to education meant federal-controlled schools. The Democratic Party, like the Communists, was "pretending a great love for human welfare that can find expression only by giving more & more power to the all-powerful central government...
...cities and the small towns. Incidentally he argued how important he thought it was for him to go back to the Senate ("I am the most formidable single opponent that the Russians have"), but principally he lambasted a political philosophy which he said would put the U.S. people "on leash from birth to death to a federal bureaucracy...
...boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
Russell K. Height Jr., 28-year-old ex-G.I. who had a brief blaze of glory as a brigadier general of the Moslem raiders in Kashmir (until the U.S. State Department put on the damper), landed back in Denver. British-born Mrs. Haight promptly slipped on the leash: "We're going to raise a family-five or six." Said husband Haight: "I will cooperate...