Word: leashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather who had high hopes...
...outside his close circle of reonoclastic conservative friends (the most outrageous and witty one wears an "I Love Ron" button and tugs a rubber shark on a leash when he goes to nuclear freeze rallies) Hart was pitted against what he calls the liberal "ethos" that diseased the administration and most of the student body...
...Many of the starving in Ethiopia are in the northern areas controlled by anti-government guerrillas lighting for the independence of the Eritrea and Tigre provinces Both sides, but particularly the government, have used food as a weapon in the struggle for control. The government has kept a tight leash on food distribution so many refugees from the war area dominated by the guerrilla forces have been hard pressed to receive food...
...little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties." Although they cast spells over their ex-husbands that reduced all three to inert household objects, their witchcraft is ordinarily mischievous rather than malign. When Alexandra wants to walk her dog on the beach without a leash, she simply conjures up a thunderstorm to drive bathers away...
Your story about the dogs of Reykjavik has given me a new leash on life...