Word: leashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leash hooked to the ring round his neck...
...East German police at the Berlin Wall feed the guard dogs just once every 48 hours. The only trouble with such severe rationing is that the dogs themselves often develop a hankering for a bigger bone in the West. In the past year, at least three have slipped the leash to swim or dash into West Berlin...
...might, but did the Kremlin? Khrushchev's freedom is clearly no more than nominal. Touched as he was by the crowd's interest, Nikita could not talk freely. Obviously, he is on a leash, being paraded at the Kremlin's will and for its own purposes. Right now at least, those seem to be merely to reassure indignant European Communists-and the world at large-that Nikita is alive, healthy, and not being treated too badly...
Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, said this week that French President Charles de Gaulle "is like the dog in one of La Fontaine's fables--he would rather be lean and unfettered than fat at the end of a leash...
...several distinguished men (including Charles Patterson Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt). But the line petered out with Jerome-Napoleon Patterson Bonaparte in 1943. The great-grandnephew of Napoleon I was taking his dog for a walk in Central Park one afternoon, when he tripped over the leash and suffered a skull fracture that killed...