Word: pup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turks worked valiantly to cut their losses. Army troops stationed near the Soviet border within 100 miles of the afflicted area rushed 7,000 pup tents, 26,000 blankets and ten tons of tea to the stricken villagers. After the daily newspaper Hurriyet printed a front-page photo of two young girls forlornly searching for their parents, it was flooded with calls from readers offering to adopt orphaned survivors. The government also received promises of several donations from abroad, including $10 million from Saudi Arabia and more than $2 million worth of supplies from...
...Roadrunner for Rikki-tikki-tavi and The White Seal (Ideals; $4.95 each). Part of the success of these slim volumes lies in Jones' choice of collaborator: a spellbinder named Rudyard Kipling, who spins haunting yarns of a cobra-slaying mongoose and an arctic mammal growing from naive pup to leader of the pack. But most of the credit must go to the illustrator-magician who makes 90-year-old stories as immediate as the dreams of youth...
...advice seems only to annoy the President. In a speech to the N.A.M. last week, he declared, "I've been a little disappointed lately with some in the business community who have forgotten that feeding more dollars to Government [by increasing taxes] is like feeding a stray pup. It just follows you home and sits on your doorstep asking for more...
...room on the right they found the leader of the terrorist cell, Antonio Savasta, 27, standing next to a pup tent pitched in the middle of the room. Inside the tent, chained to a cot, was a shoeless, bearded man in a dark blue jogging suit. Savasta was holding a silencer-equipped pistol to the man's head. Before Savasta could pull the trigger, however, a commando hit him from behind with the butt of his machine gun and knocked him to the floor...
Where Walsh, 49, fits among coaches is not easy to tell, either. His pedigree is complicated. Walsh is not just a pup out of Paul Brown, as people say. He is by Brown out of Al Davis with a touch of Sid Gillman (since Davis is really Gillman taken to the nth degree). "Al gave me the taste for offense," Walsh says of the year (1966) he assisted the evil genius of the Oakland Raiders. "He opened vistas...