Word: pug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot monster which finishes a cylinder head in 49 seconds v. 300 hours the old way. The go-year-old onetime wagonmakers also produce thousands of pug-nosed military trucks, auto & truck parts, plus some hush-hush military goods...
Pugnacious, pug-nosed Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...
...that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the other side of the river. He turned towards Newell and suddenly espied two pug-nosed Cambridge waifs sitting on the bank fishing. Vag looked at them grandiloquently. "Salve, piscatores," he said. "Same to you, fish-face," came the reply...
Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...
...about a saxophone-playing, airplane-flying, life-loving "pug" who is killed fifty years too soon. Mr. Jordan, the big boss in the Beyond, spends the remainder of the picture trying to right this unfortunate shift. Such a plot could easily have been overdone or underdone. As it is, the dish is juicily prepared, spiced with adventure, salted with philosophy, and served up with a humorous flourish...