Word: dachshund
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...pooches with an irregular heartbeat, there are human pacemakers. In St. Petersburg, the Pinellas Animal Foundation supplies donated human pacemakers to vets who request them for needy canines. Mrs. Florence Myers, 84, who once owned a dachshund, plans to donate her $8,000 pacemaker to the foundation when she dies. Says she: "I just feel it would be nice if someday some dog could...
Your car gets a flat during rush hour. A cigarette cinder singes a favorite shirt. Neighborhood hooligans drape toilet paper from tree to shrub to tree, the family dachshund finally gives up the ghost, or, God forbid, an IRS audit notice arrives in the afternoon mail. Cripes! Disaster...
...handsome figure, her "ice-blue eyes," and her sapphires and diamonds. She told Fox about another crime, perhaps a worse one in the eyes of the denizens of Happy Valley. After the murder, Broughton had gone to Lord Erroll's estate and killed one of his dogs, a dachshund. As Lady Delamere saw it, there could no longer be any doubt that Broughton was "the most evil man." -By Patricia Blake
Kohl, on the other hand, is anxious to keep Genscher and the F.D.P. as a counterweight to Strauss, who was defeated handily in the 1980 elections by Schmidt. Kohl knows that governing with the formidable Bavarian at his elbow would be like a dachshund's trying to control a rogue elephant. In addition, Kohl feels that the Christian Democrats need to forge a strong alliance with the F.D.P. if they hope to remain in power for more than one term. Kohl is reported to believe that the conservatives in West Germany today do not hold a "natural" majority, since...
Divorced nine years ago and still single, Kamali rarely goes to parties or socializes, and spends most of her time in the basement workroom of her midtown Manhattan store. She lives next door to her shop with a miniature dachshund, Ernie, in a small, one-bedroom converted marble showroom. Though the name of her shop-OMO, for On My Own-has a militant ring, Kamali is not an ardent feminist. (The first business she shared with her husband was called Kamali, and to break clean with the past she settled on the name OMO for her sleek, new, triple-level...