Word: pomeranian
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...course of a soiree. Above all, Baron von Rezzori was an obsessive hunter, whose profound and almost mystical relation with the woods and the etiquette of the chase would mark his son for life. Finally there were the beloved Other, his sister, dead at 21, and the Pomeranian governess, "Bunchy," who presided over the boy's home education as she had over his mother...
Some three decades ago, descendants of German Pomeranian immigrants, who had farmed in Brazil's mountains for a hundred years, moved toward the coast and settled in the tropical Atlantica forest. Clearing the land for farming, these settlers burned valuable jacaranda and peroba trees. Once a road was built, the region was open for an invasion of wood exporters, armed with chain saws, who cut down the rest of the forest. Any wood not exported was consigned as fuel to Brazil's burgeoning steel industry...
...benefit of Lee's detailed grasp of military drill, maneuvers and planning, the conservative Washington willingly puts up with Lee's eccentricities-among them profanity, a sarcastic style in writing reports, and a pack of dogs (poodles and a Pomeranian) that customarily infests his headquarters...
...Eternal City on the evening of Oct. 15, 1764. Yet the gestation period for his great work was strangely drawn out. Three years were frittered away on an abortive history of Switzerland. Finally, in 1772, Gibbon settled down in London with six servants, a parrot and a Pomeranian lapdog to write Decline and Fall. He completed it 14 years later, and his success was immediate though not universal. Gibbon swiftly arrived at a celebrity that allowed him to dine with Benjamin Franklin, converse with the Emperor of Austria-and aggravate his own gout. But he and his times were...
...Order. The man who has upset West Germany's politics is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), hard-driving Pomeranian who was a World War II Panzer of ficer.* Von Thadden manages to play skillfully on the self-pitying, nationalist feelings of many Germans. In Baden-Württemberg, a region known for its unemotional, middle-of-the-road politics, he conducted a restrained and low-key campaign. His biggest pitch was for law and order, an issue that has become as topical in West Germany as in the U.S. Speaking about student disorders, Von Thadden proposed a simple...