Word: mongrelize
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...dies despite her loving care-torn to pieces by a big yellow mongrel trained by the treacherous fur trader. In grief and fury Karana tracks the mongrel down and puts an arrow through him. But the brute, though deeply stricken, hangs onto life; and Karana, though rightfully revenged, begins by pitying and ends by nursing him. By the time he is well, she has come to love her enemy. Together they assail the seasons of their exile cheerfully, and make a life of what might otherwise have merely been a fate...
...also provide some smashing scenery-the Anchor Bay country of northern California-without too pointedly stopping to stare at it. And they provide two remarkably attractive performers. Celia Kaye, in her first film, makes the most charming Indian maiden since pretty Red Wing. And the actor who plays the mongrel-his name is Junior, and he is the son of the dog who played Old Yeller for Walt Disney-possesses a distinction rare in cine-mutts: he is a dog who is just plain...
...some of the specifics of Cheever's childhood let him down-a fact which may have something to do with the fact that today he wears Brooks Brothers shirts with their conspicuously missing pockets and would never consider having a mongrel dog. Unlike its St. Botolphs counterpart, the old family homestead in Quincy was not the biggest house in town, and his family was not the first family, and Quincy, of course, is a fairly routine middle-class "suburb" of Boston...
...instrument of unparalleled tyranny and persecution." It would, Russell predicted, "upset the historic division of powers among the three branches of the Government." It would sanction "such vast governmental control over free enterprise in this country as to commence the processes of socialism." It would, moreover, lead to the "mongrelization of our people," and Russell could not recall a single instance "in all of human history in which a mongrel race has been able to preserve a great civilization, much less to build...
...track, and for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, the verdict made a major problem out of a minor incident: Robinson filed a $100,000 suit for damages. While he was held for six days on the trespassing charge, he said, "his loyal and faithful dog," an 18-year-old mongrel named Skeeter, "was left unattended and, as a direct result, suffered a stroke...