Word: stray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrubby, arid eastern edge of San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department set out one day in 1954 to pick up a stray dog. The dog was a fine-looking animal, a sleek, year-old abandoned Doberman pinscher that had been tipping over garbage cans, stealing food, mating with purebred bitches, howling to the whines of fire sirens. He was also fast and smart. Time after time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside...
...they were there, were released three hours later. The impressive presence of nearly 10.000 U.S. troops, and the accessibility of 70 ships, three carriers and 25,000 men of the Sixth Fleet might make even the itchiest-fingered of Lebanese rebels hesitate. But the possibility of ambushes and stray shots remained...
...based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they were no longer mourned . . . They simply returned to the earth like wild mangoes falling. They died of cholera . . . Some drowned in the river. Others died of sunstroke or were blinded by the sun. Others were filled with...
After the banner had been presented, Fair Harvard was sung, and then the confetti battle would ensue. Sometimes it rained, but nobody cared. When the battle was over the fighters exhausted yet thrilled by the pageantry, spectators would pick their way through the rubbish, dodging stray pieces of fluttering confetti, and adjourn to the baseball field for the Harvard-Yale game...
...Broadway theater grown intellectually a little stuffy, Sahl is a kind of nice fresh breath of carbon monoxide. Beyond talking miles too long (he should never stray beyond nightclub limits), his current great faults are too much smugness and too little showmanship. He could be more outrageous if he were less obviously pleased with his manner and his mission, if he did not wait for laughs and even join in them. The danger with anybody as much commentator as jokester is that the mocking will become the messianic; already there is an atmosphere in the audience of followers rather than...