Word: pup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breaking the Leash. In Denver, after several people complained that a city firm answered every telephone complaint with, "Mr. Chiwawa, our complaint manager, is tied up in back right now and cannot come to the phone," the Better Business Bureau investigated, found a Chihuahua pup tied up in the firm's back room...
This kind of instinctive reaction stirs the ire of railroad officials. "The commuter is a son of a pup," says William R. Main, assistant vice president of the New York Central Railroad. "He is an irrational animal. Unless he gets smart pretty soon, he will be out on the end of a limb. He looks upon the service as a commodity, doesn't give it the thought it deserves, takes the service for granted, but explodes when his train is late, and seems to harbor a latent dislike for railroads...