Word: pup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear Disney tell it, wolves aren't so bad, and if they are it's because people make them that way. Take Lobo. Why, when he started out he was just the cutest little pup you ever saw, but along came a bounty hunter and shot his mother, and poor little Lobo was forced to become a lone wolf. Naturally, he killed a few cows now and then, and why not? Man had eliminated the buffalo, and Gro-Pup doesn't grow on trees. But his private life was exemplary. When he grew up he fell...
...much criticized run-Spot-run style of older primers. But now most of the faces are brown,"kitty" replaces "pony," David makes mud pies on the front stoop, Mother hangs the wash on the clothesline, and a friendly white kid named Larry comes to visit with a rope-leashed pup named Wiggles. To be tested in twelve Detroit schools that are 50% or more Negro, the books shun explicit details of the ugly world in which their readers live, try to portray an environment that their readers can reasonably imagine reaching. Hopefully, more reading is part of that environment...
...past 19 years has pieced together Transcontinental's operating subsidiary, Continental Trailways, and built it into the second largest U.S. bus system, with 53,000 miles of routes in 34 states. Compared with the top dog in the bus business, giant Grey hound, Continental is still a pup, but it is growing at a rate to give Greyhound pause. Last week, while Greyhound was reporting a 2.5% increase in its 1961 operating revenues (to $334 million), Continental announced that its revenues had jumped 11% from $45 million to $50 million. Even more impressive, Continental's 1961 profits soared...
Murder, She Said (M-G-M), "I'm the new maid." At this apparently innocuous announcement, the lady of the house looks up to smile a welcome. Her jaw drops. In the doorway stands a domestic disaster. The torso suggests a pup tent full of Jell-0, the hair looks like something dumped out of a vacuum cleaner, the chin resembles the business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only...
...country." Before long, diplomatic pouches were bringing word back that Khrushchev now felt that his young American antagonist might be much more than a pup. In evidence Khrushchev, amid belligerent yowlings, backed away from his year-end deadline about the settlement, forced or otherwise, of the Berlin question...