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Word: mastiff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London-Broadway musical). By way of burnishing the image, Donyale told the Italian press that she keeps her figure (31-21-36) by eating only a kilo of meat per day-which comes to 2.2 Ibs., enough to sate a good-sized mastiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1967 | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Twins Bebe and Annie, 12, together with one family cat and several fish, live in the South Orange house where he was born. Tony, on the other hand, lives in a 15-room Georgian mansion in neighboring Orange, which he bought two years ago, together with a bull mastiff named Dutchess, a second family cat-and his 20-canvas collection that includes works by Newman, Pollock and Kline, bought when his friends' works were selling for peanuts 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Master of the Monumentalists | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...began to read Fangs A Lot [April 8]. I had so much pun galloping through your pheasantries that my crocodile tears fell so fast I thought I needed an eye-viper. It gladdened my hart to see the tears had fallen into the glass. Instantly I addered a mastiff slug of raw animal spirits, with ice-"crocs on the rocks"-thrush snaking my thirst in a swallow. Delicious. Pity I had no horse d'oeuvre. Such a stag party may never be held again. On the otter hand, I wonder wether the savoir-fare of your report could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...breed name of the pups-Lhasa Apso. But a quick look at their genealogy showed they had the makings of ideal companions in such uncertain spots as Saigon. The intelligent, sharp-eared dogs were bred in the lamaseries around the sacred city of Lhasa, teamed with the fierce Tibetan mastiff as watch dogs. The mastiffs were chained outside while the small dogs were indoor sentinels. Only trouble is, neither Buster Brown nor Rover Boy is housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Homecoming | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...last week. He is a bachelor, and lives a most unpublic life. He has a stately manor house on 16 acres in Surrey½ hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: An Unpublic Life | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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