Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then came Transania. I no longer had any doubt of what the outcome would be, and yet a stray glimmer of hope still remained. But it was to be immediately snuffed out, as Transania, New Zenith's equivalent in strength and prestige, affirmed her alliance with Hamil and Inland...
With her son leading the way, Mrs. Gloria Goodman ran across the back yard, down a steep embankment to the edge of a small stream where the boys had been playing. Kenneth was nowhere in sight. But two snarling German shepherds and a stray boxer were. The dogs lunged. Mrs. Goodman kept them at bay with a rake, and Gene scrambled onto the limb of a fallen tree to escape their fanged jaws. "Don't let the dogs get me," he pleaded...
...animals that led the attack were later identified as shepherds kept as watchdogs by a neighbor, Ernest George Floyd. Both animals were destroyed, as were three other dogs, one of them believed to be the stray boxer. What caused the attacks? Perhaps nothing more than a sudden move by one of the boys that may have frightened the dogs. Once the angry animals had tasted blood, they obviously became murderously maddened...
...wide, abutting the border; each row, as in some medieval ordeal, is progressively more difficult. If an escapee manages merely to get near this highly guarded obstacle course, which varies with the terrain, he comes up almost immediately against two 5-ft.-high fences: the first keeps out stray animals, the second needs only the slightest touch to set off a cacophony of alarms. Just beyond them is a dog run, where 247 German shepherds already prowl sectors of the border. The escapee may also stumble over wires rigged to trigger flares...
...Butter establishes the big non-Berry beat, Berry closes his eyes and hangs his head. His fingers break idly into stray chords from Roll Over, Beethoven, and finally he half-heartedly picks up the lyrics...