Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kentucky's unbeaten basketballers knew pretty much what to expect. Their scouts had flashed word that rival St. John's U. was vulnerable to one pet play-a screen pass from the right. Forewarned, Kentucky poured in screen passes, last week in Manhattan ran St. John's ragged...
...labor legislation, including Harry Truman's pet panacea providing for fact-finding boards and cooling-off periods. ¶ All military legislation, including universal training and merger of the services...
Blasted Event. In the Seattle Times appeared a candid ad: "Our pet terrier slipped her chain and so we're peddling pups again. Cockers? Bulldogs? German shepherds? For all we know they may be leopards...
...When the time came for the Crown Prince to marry, nothing was too good for him. His bride was Fawzia, 17-year-old sister of Egypt's King Farouk, as beautiful a princess as a prince could wish. They had only one child, a daughter called Shahnaz ("the pet of the Shah"), born in October 1940. Thereafter, it became apparent that the Shah's tastes were quantitative rather than qualitative Fawzia, whose family with a century of rule be hind it looked upon the Iranian dynasty as an upstart, was enraged when her husband publicly brought other women...
Virginia Gildersleeve was born and raised on Manhattan's 48th Street-just across from where Rockefeller Center now stands-but she summered in the country. She was a solemn, round-eyed child who seldom went to parties. Her playmates were a pet goat, a pony and a horse named Billy, and she stood no nonsense from them. Once the pony took the bit in his teeth and tried to run away with her. Virginia guided him through the half-open gate of a handy race track, and let him run around the track until his wind gave...