Word: mongrelize
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...bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...motoring one day last December Mayor Peter E. Demarest of Oakland, N. J., encountered a pack of wild dogs trailing a deer. With a single bullet in his gun he brought down the dogs' leader, a powerful 150-lb. mongrel shepherd. Another dog in the pack viciously charged the Mayor, who had to leap into his car, bang shut the door. Last week he sought revenge...
...Each mongrel generation has grown wilder and more cunning. Hated for their destruction of game, they are also feared because an outbreak of rabies among them might ravage the whole district. As their next move, New Jersey sportsmen last week planned to set steel wolf traps through the Ramapos...
...tight-fitting khaki and an officer's hard cap. His Majesty faced for a few brave hours the homage of mongrel natives in Massawa (where 112° F is not uncommon in October). Finally, with beads of perspiration standing out on his mustache, Italy's King repaired with relief to the special train that was to carry him up to Eritrea's high, cool plateau...
...Conservatoire. Conservatoire students were supposed to bow down to the Academicians but in spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments in ways that had never been done before. He even endorsed the mongrel saxophone which the instrument-maker, Adolphe Sax, had introduced into the clarinet family. An Irish actress. Harriet Smithson, came to Paris and Berlioz was fairly beside himself. After staging a suicide in her presence he persuaded her to marry him but the romance ended there. Marie Recio, a mediocre singer...