Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed motorized treadmills, one of which was patrolled by four armed guards to keep the poor pooch from running off it. Another treadmill design featured a screen on which a movie of a rabbit was projected while air blowers bombarded the dog with bunny scent. A girl put her pet on springs that jiggled its feet. A device that pulled dogs along was propelled by an ingenious power plant: the energy was created by the dog's barking into a speaking tube. Only one machine threatened punishment, using a hammer to whack a dog on the back...
...Four Masters are exemplary of the great-and-noble man: the first is a Hindu who concentrates so that bullets pass through him: the second is far faster and more accurate with his gun than the rider; the next is a faster sharp-shooter who has hundreds of pet rabbits (all of which we get to see die, of course); the last is an old man who uses a butterfly net instead of a gun to shoot back any bullets fired at him. The rider beats the first three Masters by treachery. The last Master tells the rider, "I have...
Archaeologists were delighted with the new technique, which brought Libby a Nobel Prize. By using it to date artifacts of questionable vintage, archaeologists found that it lent fresh support to one of their pet theories-that there was a gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian Europe. There were a few puzzling exceptions: Stone Age tombs in Brittany, for example, were found to date back to at least 3000 B.C. Yet the oldest comparable tombs in the eastern Mediterranean-built by the Minoans on Crete -were known indirectly from actual historical records to date from only...
...project, however, has long been a pet of Representative William Natcher, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the District of Columbia. A strong pro-highway man, Natcher has effective veto power over all appropriations for the capital. If the bridge is not completed, he has said many times in public, the city's unfinished 98-mile subway system will remain mere holes in the ground without further congressional funding. The subway is desperately needed, and with Natcher twisting his arm, Transportation Secretary John Volpe gave the go-ahead for the bridge in August...
Then came the sensational and daring escape of Elizabeth's friend and Jack Strickland's fiancee Brigitte Heider, who escaped through the Berlin Wall in May, 1969, in the bottom of a VW bus with her pet turtle and another East Citizen. Brigitte had escaped under the very nose of her step-father, a top East German Secret Police official, credited as being the man responsible for the security measures involved in the building of the Wall in 1961, and who was quoted as having said of the intervention of the Russians in Prague in 1968, "each and every...