Word: petted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives from hog districts, textile states, cattle regions, automobile centers, oil country, cotton belts and dairy lands logrolled pet peeves into law. In the crush, Connecticut's Herman P. Kopplemann offered an amendment of "sympathy to the American people," heard it voted down by a whacking majority...
Oops. Near Llao-Llao, Argentina, when the Hotel Tronador missed its tame puma, an attendant sallied into the forest, wondered why the puma he caught acted so annoyed, fainted dead away when he discovered that in his absence the pet had come back...
...Lyons, fresh out of the Marines, is back in the line-up at 45. The first Sunday of the season, old Ted Lyons expects to crank up his ancient arm and fire his pet pitch at the St. Louis Browns. For him, and for many another big leaguer, the last three years didn't happen...
...Idyl. In Manhattan Beach, Calif., a sea lion, devoted to Mrs. Ruby Bigelow after she had ungummed his tarred-up jaws, flopped after her all over town, took no notice when she repeatedly led him to the ocean and nudged him in, finally wore down her resistance, became her pet...
...inches from homeplate and rolled another 101 feet. Pitchers, usually far ahead of batters in the spring, were throwing him outside balls. When they did, 31-year-old Di Mag practiced hitting to right field (the right field home run fence at Yankee Stadium, once Babe Ruth's pet target, is the closest). His 30-game R.B.I, total was up to a lofty...