Word: mongrelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meadows of golden poppies and blue lupine beckoned. It was Easter Sunday, and in the spirit of the day Jerry Edgmon, n, and his kid brother David, 9, left the tent where they lived with their migrant family, and started to pick some flowers for their mother. With their mongrel dog, Rocky, frisking beside them, the boys wandered across some dunes and crossed under a sagging, rusted barbed-wire fence...
During the trial, the Edgmons' lawyer produced a surprise witness-Richard Reams, by trade a maker of artificial limbs. In 1943, Reams, then 11, his brother Jimmie, 13, and their mongrel pup had also crawled through the fence at Fort Ord. Like the Edgmon boys, they, too, came across an unexploded shell. Unfortunately for the Reams brothers, nobody heard the explosion, and searchers didn't find them until the next day-also Easter Sunday. Jimmie Reams was dead, and Dick lost both legs, but for the Reams family there was no redress. The law under which the Edgmon...
Obstacle Course. In Denver, Emily Charleston, 73, bitten on the right ankle by a black and white mongrel, started walking home from the hospital after treatment, was bitten at the same corner by the same dog on the left ankle...
Point of Law. In St. Louis, Henry Wise argued in court that his six-week-old mongrel was a pup rather than a dog, thus won an acquittal on a charge of not owning a dog license...
...Captive. Roger decided on action. He called his two beagles, Midge and Queen, and his black & tan mongrel, Nipper, and headed for a hollow beech tree in the woods a mile and a half away. Stationing his dogs near a hole at the base of the trunk in case he scared out any raccoons, he went up the 40-ft. bole like a monkey...