Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the Baltic Sea and the Bavarian Alps, the U.S., Britain and France have a string of air bases equal to any in the world. Inherited from the Nazis, the accommodations at these bases reflect the care that Hermann Goring lavished on his pet Luftwaffe. Runways (extended by the jet-flying allies) are long and smooth, operations buildings snugly efficient, living quarters furnished down to the last monogrammed china dinner service.* Only snag about the old German system of air bases: it faces the wrong way. The best of the fields, i.e., those in the Reich's rear areas...
...target, dead or alive, seemed to be fair game. One rancher near Glenwood Springs, hoping to protect a pet doe and her twin fawns, watched helplessly as a carload of hunters, guns blazing, killed the fawns and wounded the doe. Two days later he found the doe dead. The indignant rancher braced his dead pet up near the roadside, then sat back and waited to see what would happen. He did not have to wait long...
...conspiracy" to put him out of business, Jones filed a $2.000,000 damage suit last fall. It was the first time anyone had legally questioned a traditional Ad Alley practice; new agencies are constantly being formed by account executives who walk out of their old agencies with their pet accounts in their pockets. During the 20-day trial, Jones himself cheerfully testified that when he left Maxon, Inc. in 1942 to form his own agency, he took the Bab-O and Tetley accounts along with...
When he met our old pet, George Munger...
Before 1943, he was the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism, who, as special correspondent for Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded...