Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just before dinner time. The new game has swept the swank Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas; the presidents of those fabulously wealthy organizations solemnly met with the president of the Argentine Bridge Association to codify the rules and scoring of the game. For the benefit of their pet charities a dozen women's clubs held Canasta tournaments last week at the Plaza and Alvear Palace Hotels...
...they were four years ago. High priced Tokyo shops sell "fancy silk ties, brocade purses and delicate chinaware, but few can afford them. The Ginza's humbler stalls have stacks of hardware and kitchen utensils, but still at soaring black-market prices. Chubby new autos (toyoda toyopetto, or "pet cars") chug along streets once monopolized by occupation vehicles-but most Japanese still wait in dreary queues for rickety buses...
That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
...presidency of the middle-sized University of New Hampshire (enrollment: 3,500) and take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been...
...metal. More had been destroyed when an Allied bomb wiped out his Berlin studio in 1944, and still more when Russian troops arrived in the Mecklenburg town where he had begun some, new work. The Russians smashed the new work, as if Marcks had been Hitler's pampered pet...