Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting with Hitler in 1939, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Keitel outlined the kind of strategic terror they intended to use in the Polish war. Plans were made for the complete liquidation of Poland's intelligentsia, nobility, clergy and resistance movements. Ribbentrop's pet project was a "spontaneous" revolt of Ukrainians, during the course of which a considerable number of Poles would be slaughtered...
...from Appleton. The prestigious Forum is the pet child of the New York Herald Tribune's tiny, self-assured vice president, Mrs. Ogden Reid. The newspaper business has no comparable public-service venture. It also has no one who quite compares with Mrs. Reid. Eleventh child of an Appleton, Wis. family, she was all set to teach Latin when she left Manhattan's Barnard College, 42 years ago. Instead she took a job in New York as social secretary to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and proceeded to memorize the Social Register...
Monkey Business. In Portland, Ore., several monkeys in the zoo found some walnuts, discovered that the natural stain in the husks made a fine cosmetic, painted themselves gaudy greens and golds. In New Orleans, a pet monkey, egged on by two small boys, climbed into an "iron claw" slot machine, garnered $60 worth of clocks, fishing reels, and other knickknacks...
...U.N.O.'s weak Assembly the Dublin planners would substitute a strong world legislature. To get around the reluctance of the larger powers to enter a legislature numerically dominated by small nations, the Dublin plan picked up one of Clark's pet ideas: weighted representation, under which voting power would be based on "natural and industrial resources and other relevant factors as well as population...
...principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...