Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front, the U.S. economy was not behaving as well as expected, and the future of Kennedy's New Frontier programs was in doubt; the President had just about given up hope that, in the election year of 1962, he would be able to win congressional approval of such pet programs as aid to education and medical care for the aged...
...compliment you on it. You needed it to get these new industrial plants. I'm not saying I did it all but certainly I had a small part . . . When it comes to spending money on the Arkansas River. I plead guilty to being a spender." He has a pet statistic ready at hand for Arkansans who, like Alford, distrust "Government spending": "There are those who say we shouldn't send our money to Washington and get back 50? for every dollar. I had some figures checked and I find that in 1960 the State of Arkansas paid...
Bowyer declined to speculate on what the recommendations will be. He said "everyone has his own pet theory" on traffic in the Square and preferred to await the survey results. If traffic is primarily business traffic, solution to the problem might be better parking facilities. Perhaps only a change of street markings, thus rerouting traffic, would be needed...
Eccentricities are mysteriously but reliably national. Balloonists are French, bomb throwers Bulgars, weeping drinkers Polish or Russian, and anyone who keeps a lioness as a pet is certain to be British. Author Joy Adamson was born in Vienna, but years of marriage to a senior game warden in Kenya were sufficient to infect her with a Briton's daft fondness for treating animals the way other people treat children...
...Adamsons established a camp in the game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance, of being allowed to feel the lioness' abdomen during the pregnancy, and records that Elsa often would stay in camp...