Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a child is being used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound...
Corks & Coexistence. On his own, Bulganin has at times surprised Western diplomats by his uninhibited outspokenness. Once, when the other committeemen were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight, I am the Soviet government." Bulganin's pet refrain since he started partygoing has been that the Soviet Union is determined to avoid war. "Down with war," he shouted at a recent reception. "I say that as commanding general of all the armed forces of the Soviet Union." Later, a champagne cork popped loudly, and Bulganin quickly added...
...Guatemala, the companies had some qualms. "The law is workable, but not liberal," said California Standard's special representative, Frank Plaza. Oilmen think that if oil is found in that country it will be in the sparsely settled jungle region in northern Petén. near the Mexican oilfields. Equipment will have to be flown or dragged in. Under the circumstances, Guatemalan requirements that each company drill at least one well every six months on each concession may be burdensome. Said Lionel Weidey, Jersey negotiator, "Guatemala's first barrel of export oil will cost $50 million...
Distraught Marietta tries in various ways to exclude the worst of her mixed elements: she bars her ivory tower to poor MacDougal (symbol of Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances...
...flatly for dogs and against leashes. "I am not afraid," said Gold boldly. At the election he was defeated, and the leash law was passed by a solid majority, 55,013 to 39,917. Last week, adding impost to injury, the Denver Health Department proposed a tax on pet food to pay for the law's enforcement. Mayor Quigg Newton quickly killed the idea, but bristling dog owners held a protest meeting to plan repeal of the leash law at the August city election...