Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 20%, now stands at 90 million, while the land area available has decreased by more than 40% from the heyday of the empire. The obvious remedy: increased trade in any of three directions: i) the Red Chinese mainland, 2) the U.S., 3) Southeast Asia. Premier Kishi's pet solution: creation of a $700 million to $800 million Southeast Asian Development Fund drawing its raw materials from the Southeast Asian countries, its capital goods and technology from Japan, and most of its financing from the U.S. The fund, Kishi is expected to argue, will relieve pressure in Japan...
...that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that, no matter what else the women had taken away, they could take away his pipe. "She'll never smoke a pipe," the company crowed in countless CRIMSON ads; that item is "one pet diversion our little friends keep their fingers...
...that "the man who dies . . . rich dies disgraced." "Give the average man something," said Henry, "and you make an enemy of him." True enough, he and his son Edsel did have a small foundation which spent about $1,000,000 a year, but the money went mostly into such pet projects as restoring the Wayside Inn and the birthplace of Noah Webster. After his death and the death of Edsel, however, it was this small foundation that kept the Ford Motor Co. safely in the hands of the Ford family...
Report in Pocket. Everything came together for Lyndon Johnson on the USIA appropriation. First, USIA Chief Arthur Larson was Ike's proteègè and a pet whipping boy for Old Guard Republicans because he had written a book, A Republican Looks at His Party, and coined what they considered a personally obnoxious phrase, "Modern Republicanism." That was fine with Lyndon; he could use Larson to point up the Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack...
...around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with his pet goat...