Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protection society arranged adoption by the Ahrndt family of Hannover. Alas, the German shepherd has turned out to be a pussycat. Instead of guarding against intruders, she welcomes anyone into the cottage of her owners. A mother as of March, Asta also seems homesick. She has yet to set paw into her master's Ford, but leaped happily into a visitor's East German- made Trabant and expected to be driven away...
...display is divided into nine interculturegeographic areas, said Brown. In the Northwestarea stand totem poles and a largeyellow-and-brown exterior house post carved tolook like a tree. A wooden bear perches near thetop and paw prints trace its path up from theground...
During the past decade, American furniture has caught up fast with its Old World counterparts. Just four years ago, the first Philadelphia piecrust tea table broke the $1 million mark. A year later, a paw-foot Philadelphia chair sold for more than $2.7 million. "American furniture is going straight up," says Dean Failey, senior vice president of Christie's. "The rise is correlated with the art market. When collectors pay $30 million to $40 million for a painting, a domino effect touches everything else...