Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night & Day. In Los Angeles, Walter R. Sprinkel, asking for a divorce, charged that his wife Clara lost his money on the horses during the day, insisted on sharing her bed with three pet cats at night...
...utmost scorn for "intellectual officers" who try to direct battles from an armchair. "The command of men . . . requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and unrelenting will." One of his pet peeves was his own quartermaster corps. Quartermasters, he said, "tend to work by theory and base all their calculations on precedent, being satisfied if their performance comes up to standard . . . [They] complain at every difficulty, instead of ... using their powers of improvisation, which indeed are frequently...
Arbenz helped them take over the organized peasant movement, and they have repaid him with all-out support for his pet land-reform projects. When the Reds worked out a procedure for claiming United Fruit Co. property under the new agrarian law, he was delighted; in March the President formally upheld confiscation of 233,973 acres of the company's best reserve and fallow banana-growing lands. Now Red-led peasants are demanding 224,000 acres of the other big Unifruit plantation, and the company may eventually have to fold its $50 million Guatemalan operation...
...meant that "Negro spokesmen" might gain a lot of prestige by making speeches and gathering personal followings, but did not really accomplish very much. Today's Negro leader concentrates on getting things done on specific issues. Emancipated to a large extent from the white professional liberals and their pet slogan, "education," he tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes most is to be called "a good tactician...
...shed on the pretext of helping them evade the police, and shoots a hypodermic of hydrocyanic acid into each. Before anyone has a chance to discover Herbert's private executions, he and a pair of philosophical detectives have more than enough time to labor Author Mittelholzer's pet thesis, i.e., criminals are born, not made. His further contention: eugenics experts should be given the job of blotting out young Hitlers. Stalins and criminal misfits before they grow old enough to trouble the world. Whether this is a good idea or not, Herbert's personal blottings shock...