Word: pups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horrified to learn that Harvard University may soon close the Linden St. Pinocchio's. Four years ago, when I was but a mere pup, I launched a visceral vendetta against the wurst of Harvard Square's greasy spoons. Yes, I had wretched on cold fries; yes, I had quaffed pizzas; and yes, I had revolted on molted BLTs...
...polyester sleeping bags. Bodies were everywhere-standing, sitting, lying on the floor. The wait for toilets was 20 minutes and for a cup of tea, half an hour. The gift shop sold out of men's disposable underwear; deodorant and razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto a covered area near the parking lot. Groused Pat Shaw, a waitress from Buffalo: "I've slept on concrete for three days, and the big moral question facing me at night is whether to sleep...
...keep sheep and want to keep them in order, the thing to have is a sheep dog. The man to get one from at the Sheep Breeders Festival is Maurice MacGregor of Pittsfield, Mass., a bulky emigrant from Northern Ireland who sells border collie pups (at $150 for an eight-week-old pup and $1,000 for a fully trained adult). Selling sheep dogs is his business and many of his sales are made at sheep-dog trials...
...enthusiastic kid," Madsen told TIME Sports Editor B.J. Phillips. "He loves the water. I don't think he's been dry four days in the last three months." As one judge shivered in a windbreaker and another strode the shore line in brogans, the pup, Aesirsson, bounded out of the water and sprayed everyone within five feet with a single, massive shake of his double-layered coat. It was a far cry from Madison Square Garden and the fine grooming -human and canine-of the Westminster show ring. "But Newfs weren't put on this earth just...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...