Word: dachshunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once upon a time, a little girl who lived on a small farm outside of Laramie, Wyoming owned a fuzzy dachshund named Pete. The farm was set on the very edge of the dry desert; the little girl's front lawn was crisis-crossed by a network of shallow irrigation ditches, which brought muddy water down from the hills after the heavy rains...
Pete was a good and faithful dachshund who slept a front of the fire every night, but he was far lighted. Every morning Pete would get up, sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought...
...covers a multitude of duties; Miss Sherman is in charge of the problems, academic and otherwise, of the entire freshman class and keeps and watchful eye on all undergraduate extra-curricular activities, clubs, and Student Government workings. The small concave object at her feet in the picture is her dachshund, Klaus...
Despite their gloom, Austrians had enough resiliency left to tell stories in the cafes. A thin, shivering little Austrian dachshund, one story ran, met a couple of fat, puffing Czech mastiffs at the Czech border. "You don't want to come over here. Look how thin I am. It's cold here and there's no food," said the dachshund. "Never mind," replied the mastiffs, "at least we'll be able to bark...
...Protocol M authentic, as the British said it was? German Communists ridiculed the idea. Sneered Soviet-licensed Berlin am Mittag: "Auntie fainted and the dachshund howled with terror as news of the plot came over the radio. . . ." But other Germans asked themselves: Didn't Protocol M check with Moscow's avowed aim to wreck ERP? Wasn't the Ruhr a logical Communist objective? If the protocol was not the gospel from Belgrade, what was the gospel...