Word: pug
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...hard glare on his unreflective brutality, his arrogance and his bursts of self-interested decency. Much of its punch comes from the sensitive performances of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart. Its final wallop it owes to Kirk Douglas, who fills out every corner of Kelly's unattractive pug with bulging assurance and conviction...
...filibuster last week, some oldtimers had the uneasy feeling that they ought to go out into the Capitol's Statuary Hall and see if the bronze statue of Huey Long was still on its pedestal. Before them in the well of the Senate they saw Huey's pug-nosed, mischievous face, watched his arm chop the air, and heard the voice of Louisiana's murdered demagogue. Huey's 30-year-old son Russell was making his maiden speech...
...Marienhof did so well at begetting blue-blooded pups that three-quarters of the 24 boxers in the Special Champion Class last week, at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, had his blood in their veins. The best of them, in the opinion of the judges, was Wagner's pug-ugly Zazarac Brandy of Mazelaine, at 3 a veteran of 50 shows...
...wives went along, but most of them just left their husbands at Kansas City's Union Station in the care of Monsignor Curtis Tiernan. Some of the ladies felt a little trepidation. Pug-nosed, cheerful Monsignor Tiernan, the boys' old World War I chaplain, had never been a stern watchdog and he didn't look like one. His charges-staid-looking Midwest businessmen-were kicking up a mild and happy uproar when the train pulled out. They were the boys of Harry Truman's old Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F., on their way to Washington...
...Schmeling, onetime world heavyweight champ, onetime Nazi paratrooper, now admitted being an ex-pug. In Berlin, he plodded through ten dull rounds, lost the decision, and announced, for the second time this year, that he would retire...