Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are other implications, of which the pet turtle bootlegging ring is only one example. Not only is the grocery store cat in constant danger from the racketeers, but even the squirrels in the Yard are not safe. The story of the captured rat of Hollis Hall, for which the world is not yet ready, is known by some and suspected by many, but the tale is too horrible to tell. It is enough to say that had the event been made open and legal by University Hall from the beginning, many lives and many hearts would have been spared...
...excitement, the press dropped a few aitches. It was not sure whether Elizabeth took one dog or two on the honeymoon, whether the pet was a Welsh Corgi named Crackers, or Susan, or (according to one slip) just a dog named Corgi...
...first reels describe the sweet upland bedlam of hens and houseflies, pigs and children in which Uncle Tigna (superbly acted by Aldo Fabrizi, the priest in Open City) lives. He indulges his nagging wife as if she were a pet horsefly, sneaks supper to the children when they are being punished, stains his legs up to the knee treading his grapes, fusses more than the cow over a new calf...
...task. As able as his colleagues think Daniels is (he has come to the top the hard way, in the little posts),* they know it is no one-man job. Teams of experts mass daily around long conference tables in windowless State Department rooms, preparing pounds of data on pet U.S. projects and on topics the Latin Americans may bring...
...Christianity. Britons in Kashmir began to pack. At the Srinagar Club there were tea dancing and dinner jackets as usual, but the residents were signing up for planes and road convoys that would take them south, like Sir Hari Singh. One trouble was the pet dogs, the Lhassa terriers, Afghan hounds and Pomeranians. Transportation was short, and, it turned out, there were more dogs than Britons on the evacuation list...