Word: saluki
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...tail sending a draft through the hall. Judges, like all political professionals, are clear-eyed, hardheaded, immune to cute and charisma. Was there the curse of condescension toward a breed that has ranked among the top 10 most popular dogs in the U.S. for nearly a century? The saluki was elegant and urbane; the Plott hound tough and tireless. Dogs, however, are judged not against one another but against perfection, and here, in all its modesty, was magic: Uno became the first beagle to win the hound group since...
...Crimson opened the weekend and its season with a shutout by host and eventual tournament champion Southern Illinois (9-2). Harvard faced Saluki freshman Cassidy Scoggins, who brought an ERA of 0.00 after two games to the mound. The Crimson managed just three hits off Scoggins, who extended her scoreless streak to 16 innings...
...even know how to run. You just throw yourself, lop -- and then you stop and look around."' Yes, and then? Listen for fun, but learn too: leelee goro means "little girl" in the Temne language, and jambo is Swahili for "hello." And a "sloogey dog" is a Saluki in "hungry country," which is the desert -- words, as the storyteller says, "from the far side of the imagination...
...that must be patted from tail to head because his fur grows that way. Heavy drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call him "el Hor" (the noble one), and use him to hunt gazelles. Saluki owners also have a readymade subject of conversation with Socialite Ceezee Guest...
...avid reader of TIME and a sometime handler of show dogs, I'm very curious as to the breed of dog pictured with Mrs. Winston Guest on the cover of TIME, July 20. It looks a bit like a Saluki. JULIA L. HUNT New Haven, Conn. > Mrs. Guest's dog, Sultan, is indeed a smooth-haired Saluki, Egypt's royal dog and perhaps the oldest known domesticated breed...