Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Banks Rhine, professor of psychology at Duke University and head of its Parapsychology Laboratory, faced newsmen in his campus office last week and told them the story of the homing cat. A family moving 1.500 miles from California to Oklahoma had left behind its pet cat, which had never been out of its home state. Many long months later, guided by some occult power, the cat had turned up at the family's new home.' How could he be sure that this was the same cat? Easy: the animal had a deformed hip. said Dr. Rhine...
...Acclaimed a resolution supporting "the efforts of our affiliates to negotiate guaranteed annual wage agreements"-a pet project of Reuther's. ¶ Demanded that the federal minimum wage, now 75? an hour, be raised to $1.25. Even that, said Reuther, is "not adequate," just a "first step." ¶Called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act. Earlier, the delegates heard Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell suggest that they "preclude further talk of repeal" and "concentrate on those features of the law which are really dangerous to labor, really loaded, really unfair." Mitchell did not say what unfair features...
...years ago), and home-based cats number 26.7 million. Dogs are owned by 41% of all families and cats by 29%, but the average dog-owning family has only 1.34 dogs, while cat-owners average 2.21 cats to a family. (Not included in the census were waifs, strays and pets living in stores and factories.) This year, more than 1.5 billion cans of pet food will be sold, double the output of five years...
Though he rhymed Goethe with teeth, a book of his poems drew rave notices, and he became the pet of London hostesses. He told the ladies that his favorite dish was pemmican, but at one party when his own verse sent him rolling on the floor in frenzy, he nibbled aristocratic ankles in order of rank-duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night...
Massachusetts politics are not the cleanest in the country. So when a man whose pet project is stamping out gambling and corruption runs for office, he deserves special consideration. Through an unfortunate oversight, last Wednesday's editorial on the Cambridge City Council neglected to mention such a man, Andrew Trodden. Along with Marcus Morton, he is the brightest light among the non-incumbents in the field...