Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Felden's pet chimps are among the best of dozens of characters in A Legacy, a first novel that British critics rated as the richest windfall of 1956. Clearly, Author Bedford has written not only a good novel but one that touches her contemporaries in a vital, highly sensitive nerve. That nerve is the anguished one of old Europe. A Legacy describes the Victorian and Edwardian heyday when well-to-do men and women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled...
...really a homebody, and the main support of two adult humans, Mennella, 34, and Roy Waldron, 33, onetime NBC pages who bought him for $600 when they decided to open a pet shop. Last week they lovingly nursed him back to health around the clock, feeding him pills every four hours, shared the hours with him as he sat in the living room by a roaring fire watching TV. When necessary, they have even slept in the same bed with him ("The only trouble is that he grabs all the blankets"). Says Mennella: "There will never be another one like...
...sparkled "with spontaneous sensations, new tingling images." Elle, France's biggest women's weekly, denounced her as a fake. They were all talking about nine-year-old Minou Drouet, whose poems launched a major cultural rhubarb in Paris (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955). Since then, Minou (a French pet name for "kitten") has fought back. When a critic sniffed that she should go back to her dolls, Minou answered: "Dolls are the dead. Have I no more to do here on earth?" More important in her defense was a test for membership in France's Society of Authors...
When slim Filipino Nurse Pet Duruin arrived in Viet Nam, the first Vietnamese words she learned were: "Mot ngay ba vien," meaning "one tablet three times a day." Nurse Duruin repeated this phrase as often as 200 times a day as she passed out quinine and sulfa pills from her own thin, bronzed hand to the equally bronzed but thinner hands of the wretched refugees streaming in from the Communist north. For this was October 1954, following the invasion debacle that ended with the surrender of Dienbienphu to the Reds...
Some brought along pet doctrines of their own, and gradually some of these grew into a new theology. The Seventh Day Baptists contributed the teaching that Christians are observing the wrong day of worship; the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) was enjoined by the Ten Commandments and kept by Jesus himself; Sunday worship, they believed, was a 2nd or 3rd century innovation without Biblical authority. This became a cardinal tenet of the new post-Millerites, and by 1860 they were calling themselves Seventh-day (because they observe the Sabbath) Adventists (because they look for the imminent advent of Christ...