Word: pons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pon, Clavell...
Pointer puppies cost anywhere from $100 to $500. But there is always a chance that the dog may turn out to be a champion and pay his own way, like Rig-A-Jig, a five-year-old owned by A. L. ("Pon") Lippitt of Virginia Beach, Va. This month, in the National Open Pheasant Competition at Baldwinsville, N.Y., Rig-A-Jig pointed six birds in less than two hours-enough to win him $1,600 and the tenth field-trial victory of his career. With nearly 750 professional field trials in the U.S. each year, many a breeder grows wealthy...
...block the flanking thrust, the army men staging the games plotted military academy textbook tactics-with nuclear trimmings. The invading reds began the show by firing nuclear artillery at the blue defenders, supposedly vaporizing the town of Pon-tarlier (pop. 16,000). Smoke machines puffed up mushroom clouds to simulate utter destruction. The blues responded by dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More...
...airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy delivered a graceful speech in French. (He was helped by phonetic notes on words like "ann-day-pon-dons" and "Hoo-fwet Bwa-nyee...
serve each one you set eyes pon...