Word: petted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.I.s overseas in wartime had two pet chow-line peeves: 1) powdered milk, 2) powdered eggs. Last week, at the meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago, the combination was hailed as a lifesaver. The reason: thousands of G.I. ex-prisoners of the Germans might have died in U.S. rehabilitation camps but for the discovery that the stomach of a starving man, which rejects meat, cheese or whole milk, can accept much-needed protein in its blandest form...
...support had shifted to the country; the land reform program had pulled an unexpectedly heavy leftist vote. In industrial cities like Dresden, Leipzig, Plauen, Zwickau, traditional cradles of German leftism, the labor vote split wide open. But power remained in the hands of the Russians and their pet party, which, will control 22,494 out of Saxony's 29,356 municipal offices. In Thuringia's elections this week the SED won a clear majority...
Spiral v. Corkscrew. Keeping editors from one Tomorrow to the next had been a continuing problem. There was, for example, the matter of the ascending spiral which curls across each month's cover. It was one of Mrs. Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished...
Freddie Bartholomew, willowy ex-child-actor, now 22 and a married man, whistled like mad for an hour along a busy Manhattan street, finally gave up. A $50 reward for the return of Mitsou, his lost red chow, brought his pet back next...
...morning last week the News ran its 264th Inviting the Undertaker. The cartoon combined two pet Patterson themes: safety, and hatred of the Roosevelts (it showed a tombstone, though no one had been seriously hurt when Eleanor Roosevelt dozed at the wheel and smashed into two cars-TIME...