Word: leashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breaking the Leash. In Denver, after several people complained that a city firm answered every telephone complaint with, "Mr. Chiwawa, our complaint manager, is tied up in back right now and cannot come to the phone," the Better Business Bureau investigated, found a Chihuahua pup tied up in the firm's back room...
...animal not on a leash became fair game. First day, 40 dogs and 20 cats were shot. "They've gone crazy," complained one man. "My wife hollered, 'Don't shoot!' but they shot my Labrador retriever four times with a shotgun, right in front of the kids. And he had a tag on." Unsentimental health officers literally stuck to their guns...
...sort of girls they liked to romp with. To the pressagents' delight, he became notorious as a columnist puncher, cop clobberer and practical joker -the fellow who wired the ladies' room at home and walked through downtown Chicago with a half-grown lion on a leash...