Word: sheepdogs
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...well (the customers appreciated his "good breeding") that he might have remained a bank clerk forever, had not a female employee played tag with his trusting, spaniel-like affections. Edmond began to gambol in the stock market, and soon became wealthy. He bought a painting by Rosa Bonheur called Sheepdog Pursuing a Sheep and Woman with Dog by Matisse...
...animal styles. It is the unpreceptive observer who has not seen a horsetail hair around the Square somewhere. The very urchins discuss it as they shine one's shoes. Popular too is the poodle haircut, though in recent times it has been joined by the Old English Sheepdog, the Skye, and (Oh rara avis!) the Russian elkhound hairstyles...
...legal hunter of top Communists. He helped Tom Murphy prosecute Alger Hiss, collaborated in the trial of the top eleven Communists and-after becoming U.S. Attorney in New York last year-convicted William Remington and Atom. Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Last week Prosecutor Saypol was busy as a sheepdog. He was trying to keep a handful of second-string Communists within the law's purview, to make sure that they are still on hand when it comes time to try them for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow...
Greying Mrs. Wilson sailed into her charges like a relentless sheepdog. She wanted no fancy writing, none of the "feminine things like the names of flowers, descriptions of dresses, and things that women talk about." And no invented quotes. They must get that through their heads. "Send me what people actually say, not what you think they should...
...farmhouses from the Pennine Hills to the seven streams that flow eastward to the Humber, the herders celebrated the end of a ten-day nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...