Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Screeching Halt. In Charlotte, N.C., sneaking out of Johney's Hobby Shop with a radio he had just pilfered, a young boy was caught when the shop's pet parrot squawked: "Boy stealing . . . boy stealing...
...leisure hours water skiing and practicing ballet with his wife and two daughters (his two sons prefer other sports). Reiner likes to battle constituted authority, from the Defense Department to the Los Angeles city fathers. He employs a full staff of lawyers to aid him in his causes. His pet project: because he deplores the state of education in public schools, he recently spent $300,000 to build a private elementary school for his own and his neighbors' children...
...tried it in the 1909 way. Frenchman Jean Salis, 63, wobbled across the Channel in his 484-lb. replica of Bleriot's monoplane ("It was like sitting on a fluttering leaf"), eventually made it from Arc to Arch in 12 hr. 17 min. 22 sec. Clutching a pet tortoise named Fangio, Health Faddist Dr. Barbara Moore Pataleewa, 55, set out from Marble Arch on foot, switched to a motorcycle, hopped a plane from Croydon to Le Touquet, on the English Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris, sipping fruit juice and munching grass along...
Nobody paid any mind the morning a throaty Broadway actress gulped down some repairs for the damage of the night before and strode about her villa in the buff with a pet monkey perched on her shoulder. Only an outsider-a Western Union boy-was shocked. When he delivered a telegram, the boy took one look at the apparition bowing low before him, shoved the message into the monkey's paw and fled...
...usage, ten principles of composition, a few matters of form. Each Strunk command (Do not break sentences in two. Use the active voice. Omit needless words) is followed by a short, barking essay and examples in parallel columns-right v. wrong, timid v. bold, ragged v. trim. Strunk had pet usages; he insisted on forming the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's regardless of the final consonant (Rule 1 ). It would have enraged him to read a modern newspaper headline about Bonnie Prince Charlie: CHARLES' TONSILS...