Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving for the south of France, vowing: "The British Empire and France have been maneuvered into the worst possible strategic position. . . ." Much was made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original protégé, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill. It was suggested in the Leftist press that this galaxy of big British names might suddenly join with "the Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened...
...These "baskets" were neither wicker containers nor scoring points in a game but Congressional slang for different sections of the new tax bill-each basket being designed to> catch a certain type of taxpayer. Most discussed has been the "third basket," for it carried the largest load of a pet Administration theory-the tax on undistributed profits...
That even this face-saving ghost of the Administration's pet tax project might well be further modified the Committee was well aware when it reported the bill. What it did not expect was that a 326 to 104 Democratic majority in the House would, especially in an election year, prove so much more responsive to the wishes of business than to the wishes of the Administration as to kill the third basket entirely. This last week was precisely what occurred. So eager was Congress to show that it is still a representative body that it was willing...
Last week a full-length documentary film on Mexican animals, produced by Brothers Stacy & Horace Woodard, made the road runner-rattlesnake story a little less tall but no less telling. The Adventures of Chico shows 10-year-old Goatherd Chico taking his siesta, guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...
...serpentine germ, Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, causes the disease, affects the spleen and liver, yellows the eyes and skin, raises temperature, is not often fatal. Donald Siegle's pet dog had an attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled...