Word: tailed
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...sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden whooped and cheered from the moment Uno appeared with the other hounds on the night of Feb. 11, and he ahhrroooed right back, bouncing along, working the ring, his 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...
...maintains, more or less constantly, a near-instinctual hope in his eventual rehabilitation and an almost unwilling determination to press on. It is this fact that makes it impossible to not like Day, not to sympathize with him. Even when he chooses to be a tail gunner because “you’re the one they’re most likely to kill,” Day still reaches for every book, still infuses every song with all his soul. Half-despite himself, his will to live is indefatigable.And the book’s most beautiful passages...
Last May, on the tail-end of his stint as FAS dean, he told The Crimson that he would stay on as long as President Faust asked him to, though the job was taxing...
...World Wildlife Fund-Brasil. "The government needs to recognize that agribusiness, especially cattle ranching, is part of the problem," Scaramuzza said. "If we keep hearing the agriculture minister saying that agribusiness has nothing to do with the problem then we are always going to be chasing our tail...
...They, and you the viewer, are supposed to believe that this huge creature - whose stride spans several city blocks, and who could get across the East River in about three steps - is some sort of snob who wouldn't be caught dead in Brooklyn. (But his victims would. That tail whips out of the water and snaps the Brooklyn Bridge...