Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, the only way to abolish the filibuster is to demonstrate that it is not a monopoly of anti-civil rights forces but can also be used against pet measures of the Republican majority. Only then will many Republicans who denounce filibusters but vote to weaken the cloture rules (e.g. the Wherry Resolution) unite with the liberals on a cloture provision with teeth. According to the Times the efforts of the opposition have borne fruit as the Senate Rules Committee is thinking of strengthening the rules on rebate...
Baiting Aunty Molly was one of Stalin's pet pastimes during World War II. To General de Gaulle, who went to Moscow to negotiate a Franco-Soviet treaty, Stalin wisecracked: "You are a hard bargainer. You got the better of Molotov. I think we shall have to shoot him." Frenchman and Russian laughed until they noticed Molotov white with fear...
Cigar-chewing Curt LeMay, a sports-car enthusiast who does his own highway driving in a Cadillac-Allard, was on hand to watch a pet LeMay project. Airport racing, with admissions at $2 a head, swells the treasuries of Air Force Aid societies and local charities, pays for barracks improvements and gives SAC airmen a constructive off-duty hobby-tinkering with engines. Moreover, the Sports Car Club gains the advantage of sporty, twisting courses on the runways, where chance spectators are not so apt to wander out into the turns as they sometimes do in road racing...
Charles E. Bohlen, who had his share of senatorial trouble getting approved as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, met still further delay on his journey to Moscow. Some 15 hours after the Bohlen party (his wife, two children and pet poodle Chou Chou) left New York's Idlewild airport, they were back at Idlewild with engine trouble. After a further three-hour wait, they were off again. At week's end the Bohlens were finally in Europe...
...Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic maid (Mary Wickes), an unruly youngster (Billy Gray), a pet turkey named Gregory. With its sleighrides, ice-skating parties and other Technicolored bucolics, By the Light of the Silvery Moon is so relentlessly wholesome that moviegoers may wish for the Dead End kids to drop...