Word: woofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warp & Woof. The turnover in some Manhattan buildings is dizzying. Many families who are lucky enough to have sublet clauses in their leases exercise them within months of moving in-provided they can find a sublessee to take the rap for them. Tales of recalcitrant electronic elevators with wills of their own, narrow corridors ("Every night when I come home it looks more like a cell block"), warping floors, woofing plumbing and cracking plaster have become standard cocktail lore...
...Whoa" & "Woof." Last week, busily at work with his year-old pointers, Morton explained the art and science of training dogs to hunt birds. "A dog has to learn to scent the body of the bird, not his track," said Morton, "or else he'll be pointing at where the bird was instead of where he is. If a breeze is blowing toward him, a good dog can pick up the scent of a bird 100 yards away...
...teach a dog how to point, first you get him to stop when you say 'whoa.' A good dog will stop in mid-air when you say that and come down motionless. Then you watch for the little 'woof' a bird dog gives when he smells game. Every time he says 'woof' you say 'whoa.' Finally you teach him to hold the point. He'll hold it for half an hour or longer...