Word: terrierism
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...brother Jack's successful senatorial campaign, then landed a job with the Senate Subcommittee. He worked as calmly as he could under Joe McCarthy's Chief Counsel Roy Cohn, who taunted Kennedy as "a cute kid," complained that Kennedy did not like him. Bristling like a Boston terrier, Kennedy retorted: "If I have any dislike, it's well justified...
...office work, e.g., checking the 500 tips (one-third worthwhile) pouring in each day. Since they have a staff of servants at home, Mrs. Kennedy has sat in at almost all of the Teamster hearings to watch her husband at work. In the hearing room, Kennedy took a terrier grip on recalcitrant witnesses, accusing, badgering and interrupting in his high-pitched, bean-and-cod-accented voice, drawing on a remarkable store of information...
...added another goal at 18:40 when the defensemen failed to cover invading lineman and then netted three more in the final period. Again, Terrier goalie Harry Levin was called on to make only ten decent saves (official total, 21) as compared to Captain Jim Bailey...
...quick goals at the beginning of the second period seemed to give the Yardlings a commanding lead. With a Terrier player in the penalty box, Rient and Kalil tallied within five seconds of each other. But B.U. reduced the lead to 4 to 3 later in the period on scores by Bill Hodgkins and Dave McLeod...
...last minute of the roughly-contested third period, Mike Graney put the Yardlings out of reach with a ten foot drive into the Terrier nets...