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...Sizemores, there was no question where Old Red's remains should rest: they put him in a sack and bore him to the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, where the rich totemic significance of the breed has been celebrated since Sept. 4, 1937, the day Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole...
...Underwood, who would be 83 years old on Sept. 11, was there too, and when people sought him out, asking if he was the Key Underwood, he would say, "What's left of him." Then they would ask him about Troop, and he would say, "Troop was just as humble as he could be. I never heard him growl at another dog. But when it come to Mr. Coon, that was something else. He'd walk around a coon until he saw an opening, and he'd move in there and grab him on those foreshoulders, and you could hear...
...clot of listeners would form around Underwood as he talked, and every once in a while someone would offer encouragement in a most exuberant dialect. "At dogud tree!" What the man said was, "That dog could tree," meaning Troop had an unerring nose for raccoons...
...ships operate at a loss, they provide the Kremlin with badly needed foreign currency (more than $2 billion in 1984). Their military usefulness is indisputable. Several Soviet liners are equipped with side ports for vehicles, which are of little use on a cruise but of great value for troop carriers...
...mortar barrage near the town of Arenales; one Honduran soldier was killed and eight others were wounded. In response, the Honduran air force dispatched, for the first time, some of its U.S.-made F-86 jet fighters to attack Nicaraguan positions. The Hondurans said the aircraft fired on Sandinista troop concentrations and shot down a Nicaraguan helicopter...