Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentence. "My car is a very special friend of mine," explains one car owner. "It's like a human being. I talk to my car. I greet it in the morning. 'And how are you?' I say. 'Glad to see you again.' Yes, I pet it too-just a light touch, or a stroke on the dashboard...
...ball club. First Baseman Boog Powell is (at 6 ft. 4½ in. and 246 lbs.) one of the biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder and hamburger...
Banda is just as emphatically his own man on Africa-wide matters. Last week Diallo Telli, Guinea's leftist secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, was in Malawi for Banda's inauguration when he suddenly found some of his pet schemes under scathing attack during a Banda press conference. "I didn't fight the British to exchange British imperialism for Eastern imperialism," Banda snapped. Then looking Telli straight in the eye, Banda shouted: "I mean that! I'm saying that because you are here. You can expel Malawi from the O.A.U." As Telli shrank...
...Secretary-General U Thant was predictably pious (and for a neutral official, inappropriately political), expressing "deep regret" over the bombing of "heavily populated areas" and plugging his pet pipedream that by halting the air strikes the U.S. could end the war. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano viewed with concern, fretting that "news such as this cannot be learned without regret and also without worries." Charles de Gaulle, to nobody's surprise, joined his Moscow hosts in an expression of "alarm" and a warning of the "increasing instability" in Southeast Asia,which-he forbore to note...
...soybean is a pea-sized seed, usually yellow in color but gold in the eyes of the farmer. It wouldn't make much of a pet, but it has about all the other qualities of Al Capp's famous Shmoo. It is crushed into edible oils for cooking and salads and into livestock feed. It goes into antiknock gasoline, linoleum, chocolate candy bars, and helps make fire extinguishers foam...