Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father of three. "Rather than part with her, we will emigrate and I will quit politics." Despite his dogged stand, the Finance Minister is on fairly safe ground: he may be in the doghouse, but as a member of parliament he cannot be jailed. Before things become irretrieverable, one wag suggests, why not transfer Gudmundsson to Iceland's United Nations delegation in New York? New Yorkers, after all, are not only accustomed to putting on the dog, but putting up with it as well...
...impossible to tell just how bananas Suder is supposed to be going; he is the only spokesman for his misadventures and he says he feels better and better. But along the way, Everett's novel develops a severe case of enforced sit-com wackiness. Jokes wag the tale; characters seem willing to do anything for a laugh track. -By Paul Gray
...beach party, Rohmer shows that adults are always trying to capture the simplicity of youth. In Rohmer's world, the adults refuse to accept reality, and gradually the children get swept into an adult world where people manipulate others in order to have a good time. These adults constantly wag their tongues in search of happiness and usually get so carried away they bite their tongues...
Desperate measures are clearly required. Tony's minister father offers to pay Miss Doubloon for the young wag's private tutoring. She agrees and sets her room in the local boardinghouse as the appointed place. Her landlady greets Tony's arrival there with dark suspicion. She senses an aura of incipient scandal hovering about Miss Doubloon. The teacher will, in fact, soon ask her class to read The Scarlet Letter, provoking local bluenoses to declare: "We're gonna tighten our Bible Belt!" On this snowy winter evening, the landlady's wicked mind proves prescient. Upstairs...
Going to the Dogs. To tourists, there are no cuter animals: cuddly, light brown bundles of fluff that kiss (to identify each other) and wag their tails. To farmers and ranchers of the Plains states, prairie dogs are a major nuisance: they feast on valuable grasslands and dig hidden burrows that can break the leg of a horse...