Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter of a century ago, Edward Harkness' three million dollar gift gave President Lowell a solid basis for fulfilling a pet idea: a House designed as a community for scholars, giving tutors and students a chance to share ideas in the informality of a dining room or common room...
...After finding a seemingly new disease among their Washington patients, Drs. Worth B. Daniels and Frank G. MacMurray report in the A.M.A. Journal that they have traced a total of 160 cases of cat-scratch fever. Just what causes the disorder after even a mild scratch by a playful pet is unknown, but common symptoms are chills, headache, nausea and bellyache, while in some cases the lymph glands become as big as golf balls for as long as two years...
...right, all right, all right ..." But he was too softhearted to continue the major's gong-banging when a contestant lost the audience's favor. Mack conducts rambling interviews with the amateurs, cracks heavy-handed jokes, generally contributes to the cornball atmosphere that satisfies both sponsor Pet Milk and the largely rural and small-town audience that stays tenaciously faithful to the show...
...apple of McIver's parental eye is Stevie Holt, a melancholy young painter patient with one suicide attempt behind him. The curing of Stevie is also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
There is one excellent argument for Blue Cross which so far seems to have been overlooked. Since it is a consideration closely akin to a pet theory of the hygiene staff, it might well prove a conclusive point: For years the University's staff has been saying that compulsory health insurance under the College's own plan is a necessity because the less affluent students might otherwise pass up care when they need it. But doctors in the area offer a complaint about the present system which is just as hard to answer: many of these same less wealthy...