Word: dogged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...
Since starting out in their four dog sleds last February 21st, they have actually encountered a scarcity of large animal life despite abundant tracks. Yet after Freddy Church, the Expedition's communications middle man at Barrow, relayed one of the rare sightings of a few seals to England, The Times of London assumed that the Expedition had practically proven Stefansson's theory. The Times just happens to be one of the financial backers of this $150,000 effort...
Humphrey, who had already come under pressure from his staff to get assurances from Nixon that he would not put his dog on camera, had plans for the debates to be held at different historic parks around the country, but eventually both sides agreed to stick to the same format as the historic Kennedy-Nixon debates...
Hideous Neckties. A world-renowned brain surgeon, Professor Preobrazhensky (the name suggests the Russian word for transfiguration), implants the testicles and pituitary glands of a dead balalaika player in the body of a mongrel dog. Lo, the animal is transformed; he begins to talk and to assume human characteristics. Unfortunately, they are those of the balalaika player, a sodden, crude-minded lowlife. Nevertheless, the dog is welcomed as an equal by the sanctimoniously proletarian house committee of the professor's apartment building. Sharik the dog becomes "Sharikov" the Soviet citizen. He is supplied with identity papers and, except...
...against the state: the figure of Bulgakov's too clever professor, he thinks, may be a caricature of Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart of a Dog makes it questionable how clearly he saw things, at least in 1925. To Bulgakov, the proletarian state seemed vulgar, mindless and infuriating, but the book does not give a sense that he felt menaced by it. The growing shelf of Bulgakov's work begins to take the form...