Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifesto proclaims that it will "strive to give predominant space to the fiction and poetry of both established and new writers, rather than to people who use words like Zeitgeist." The manifesto was written by William Styron, young author of the excellent novel "Lie Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still don't like the word, perhaps because, complying with the traditional explanation of intolerance, I am ignorant of what it means." The wheel has come full circle...
...learn that there were more serious things in life than toys." At the age of five, when he developed such "sinful propensities" as a love of lollipops, his rector uncle was called in to flog his bare bottom with a riding crop. Because he became understandably fond of a pet cat, it was taken from him and hanged...
...Competition. In Detroit, Mrs. Marguerite Norton got a divorce after testifying that she had to work to support herself because her husband lavished so much money and affection on his 10,000 pet worms...
...King. Result: Narriman, impassive behind dark glasses, drove to Rome's Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where she could file for divorce. (Moslem wives may shed husbands by petitioning the Sharia, the Moslem personal court, for divorce on one of four grounds: infidelity, mistreatment, desertion...
...pet project of Harry Truman, his memorial library which is expected to cost some $2,000,000, received a sizable gift from labor: $150,000 from the C.I.O. and $100,000 from the United Steelworkers of America, bringing total donations to date...