Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendès hoped to enlist Italian and German support for two of his pet projects: 1) a European Arms Pool, to standardize and control arms production in all Western European Union nations, and 2) talks with the Russians in the spring. Italian and German backing, he thought, might help him get German rearmament through the French Senate later this month...
...professed friends of a united Europe, bided their time. "Don't get yourself worked up," the M.R.P.'s Francois de Menthon mocked Premier Mendes-France. "We've already decided to deal with you later." They have never forgiven him his share in the defeat of their pet...
...This half-crazy and . . . ridiculous old man." "That half-mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything, and be a Dictator." Thus, on two occasions, did Queen Victoria fulminate against her pet hate, Liberal William Ewart Gladstone. In ferocious agreement with the Queen were the House of Lords, the City magnates and all good Tories-down to the anonymous songster who bellowed from the music-hall boards that Gladstone
Ever since electricity came into its own, harnessing the potential of the tides has been one of man's pet schemes.* It remained for the power-short French to translate a major scheme into action. Last week Electricité de France, the nationalized power combine, announced that work would start next spring on a $57 million tidal project near Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast...
...also have a parakeet," added Joan, "named Crazy Crawford." But parakeets (like Peter Lorre's pet sea gull that recently suffered a broken wing) have their own special emotional problems...