Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
...work by New York City school children, called Moments of Enchantment, a companion piece to a similar anthology published just 100 years ago. The stunt was staged by Associate School Superintendent Elias Lieberman, head of the junior high schools, who had happened on the 1841 collection, called The Pet Annual...
...Most of us have some pet interest we're working on," Tom remarked. "Coming from the South I've always been interested in the background of the negro and their tribal history. Thanks to the courses and professors here I'm really finding out things in this line...
...months after his first professional match, New York boxing promoters already had their eyes on him. One of them was shrewd Mike Jacobs, Broadway ticket speculator, who was looking for an up-&-coming heavyweight to fight giant Primo Camera for the benefit of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's pet charity, the New York Milk Fund...
During the bitter winter of '66-'67, which choked off ferry traffic in New York harbor, it took longer to reach Manhattan from Brooklyn than from Albany. This gave John Roebling a chance to carry out a pet project which previously had been laughed down: the great Brooklyn Bridge with its 1,600-ft. center span. Brooklyn Bridge cost him his life: a ferryboat crashed into a pier on which he was standing, crushed his foot, gave him tetanus...