Word: mongrelize
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...Student Judah Folkman, working under famed Heart Surgeon Robert Gross, got the idea that holes between the ventricles of the human heart might be closed with plastic (polyethylene) patches. Like all such ideas, it was tried first on dogs. Last week in Boston Children's Medical Center, a mongrel named Airplane, with a strip of collie in his bar sinister, was dubbed "Dog Research Hero of the Year," invested with a new collar and silver medallion by Cardiologist Paul Dudley White for having helped to prove the operation feasible. Airplane now leads a pampered existence in Dr. Gross...
...called my clients "lowest mongrel curs...
...cock an ear to the corny notes in The Voice of Bugle Ann? The same armor of sentimentality will surely protect Old Yeller. Texas Author Fred Gipson, onetime newsman and veteran of the pulps, has written double insurance into his third novel. Not only is Old Yeller a mongrel of rare courage and devotion; his 14-year-old master, Travis, totes about as much man on his boyish frame as any adolescent in recent fiction...
Only two characters glimpse the true lovableness beneath his gruff exterior. One is a cunning mongrel dog named Pard; the other, an equally cunning gun moll named Marie (Shelley Winters). Palance finds them in a mountain hideout where he holes up to plan his' next caper -the stickup of the exclusive Tropico Hotel. Shelley keeps mooning at the snowy WarnerColor peaks of the High Sierras and speculating that it must be mighty clean up there. "Cold, too," says Jack, and goes back to laying his plans. Scripter W. R. (This Gun For Hire) Burnett still has about 30 minutes...
...Will you listen, Americans?" Talmadge asks in the book. "Segregation in the South . . . has proven itself to the best interest of both races . . . Nations composed of a mongrel race lose their strength and become weak, lazy and indifferent . . . easy preys to outside nations . . . exactly what the Communists want to happen to the United States." Talmadge offers to segregationalists a two-point program 1) the whites must organize from the county level, to head off creeping integration; 2) white voters must beware of that "candidate . . . who will make deals, sell...