Word: mongrelism
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...Harrison Williams, famed for her just-so hair, parties and clothes, lost her Micky, the much-photographed beige mongrel that had constantly kept her company in all the best places. Micky, whom she picked up in Capri in the '303, died in Manhattan at the age of twelve (kidney trouble...
...landed on LIFE, which had recently dubbed him-on the basis of a poll of top-ranking Washington correspondents-the "worst man in the Senate." Chugged Bilbo: "This leftish, communistically, pink-colored, mongrel magazine . . . mean, dirty, subtle, libelous...
...over New Mexico is immaculately blue. On May 8, that clear blue sky will be gashed by a dirty grey-white smoke trail. The first German-American V-2 rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army...
...Importance of Being Earnest and The Voice of the Turtle. The comparisons, however, were on a basis of genre rather than genius; Playwright Rattigan's sun starts to set after a bright first act. Mixing all-too-familiar elements, While the Sun Shines winds up as both a mongrel and a bit of a museum piece...
...staff general had seen it with his own eyes: an MP outfit in Brittany had trained its pet hare and a mongrel dog to chase each other. Dutifully making his report, the staff general reported the phenomenon to his commander. Blimped his boss...