Word: paw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state line to a secret hideout where Virginia executioners could not get at him. Lawyer Lutins then reached for the top. In a 19-page petition, he asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. It refused: the dog must die as soon as he puts a paw back into Virginia...
...Pennsylvania should make the Irish setter its "state dog" to go along with a state flower, state tree and state game bird. The United Irish Societies of Pittsburgh found a lawyer willing to defend the dogs-for free. A dog from the Pittsburgh police K-9 corps found his paw dipped in ink and splayed in signature across a petition for clemency. A New York striptease dancer, who claims to own 50 dogs, offered to undress in front of the courthouse if it would help save the setters...
...with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing influence of Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw), an African terrorist society whose members, like Kenya's notorious Mau Mau, take secret oaths and are heavily influenced by witch doctors. Poqo fanatics recently tried to assassinate Matanzima because he frankly favors apartheid as "the best solution" for South Africa's racial troubles...
...also has a paw in Mideast Airlines, in Beirut's St. Georges and Phoenicia hotels, and in a dozen trading companies that sell everything from Land Rovers to soft drinks. In just a decade, CAT's yearly gross has soared from $5 million to $60 million and its profits from almost nothing to $1.5 million a year...
...year. But no matter how many were killed, there was always the big one that got away. In New Mexico his name was Lobo, and Lobo was a brute half again as big as he had any natural right to be, with a roar like a lion and a paw like a bear and a cunning that made hunters old before their time. His legend still lives in the great Southwest, lives in every boy who ever read Lobo, The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Thompson Seton. Now it lives in something more than full color and something less than...