Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIGGEST CONVENTION HALL in the world, long a pet Chicago project, is now past the dream stage. After years of arguing about location and funds, the Illinois state legislature is almost certain to pass a bill creating a state authority to issue revenue bonds to build a $34 million hall, with a 60,000-seat capacity, on the site of Chicago's 1933 fair. Construction is expected to begin in about a year...
Although Fraternity membership is usually a background for the B.M.O.C.'s, the great numbers included in these ranks leave many in the battle to the top. One of the few truly B.M.O.C.'s is the modest caretaker of the LSU pet Tiger (18 years old). He feeds the Tiger and drives him to distant games. Everyone loves the caretaker. When the keeper and the Tiger were in a traffice accident this last fall, over 2,000 alumni wrote in sympathy. Only 500 were directly addressed to the Tiger, giving the B.M.O.C. an obvious edge...
...Back home in North Carolina, Pet-Lover Graham keeps a horse, a cat, a canary, a parakeet, a Great Pyrenees dog named Belle Shazzar...
...ultimatum came from the leaders of three religious-political sects* of South Viet Nam, an exotic consortium of religious fanatics, feudal warlords, uniformed hoodlums and racket bosses bound loosely behind an ambitious general who keeps pet crocodiles. Together, the sects have private armies of some 40,000 men. Their leaders, now losing the subsidies and prerogatives accorded to them by the French colonials, are dangerous. "Reorganize your government within five days," said their ultimatum. "Replace it with one that is suitable." The man at the desk bristled with stubborn irritation. "While we permit ourselves foolishness like this," he snapped, "there...
...John Gibson Winans, 52, an air-minded professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, was demonstrating last week the first part of a pet theory: that airplanes should take off and land in circles, as tethered models...