Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back. If a girl chooses to lift umbrellas while waiting for a storm outside to quiet down, this beige-and-white striped raincoat (left), lined in olive-green with a pocket on the sleeve is hers for $25. Ideal for the girl (below) who wants to pet her oriental tiger or play with her orientals dolls are these black chino toreador pants for $5.98 with a black cotton classic blouse for $4.98. The black-and-red striped jacket has push up sleeves and sells...
...Volatile temperament. Germany's Wagnerian Tenor Hans Beirer is not ordinarily temperamental, but at one rehearsal he went into a pet and refused to sing until somebody brought a couch on stage for him to lie on. Hungarian Sandor Konya, rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated...
...history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish pet...
Superficially, Hoffa's answer seemed no more than the truth. That afternoon, at a meeting of the I.B.T. general executive board in Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Beck and the board had shelved Hoffa's pet project: a loan of $400,000 to the International Longshoremen's Association, which was expelled from the A.F.L. more than two years ago for flagrant corruption and racketeering. Beck also asked and got from the board virtually unlimited authority to clean out corruption in the I.B.T. itself...
...senior prefect spoils him and thereby earns him the hostility of the whole school and a brutal beating, the intense Jewish girl whose love drives him to deeds of derring-do that secretly terrify him, his eventual marriage to a rich, oversexed woman who keeps him as a pet. Thence to despair and the dock...