Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus. She kept going over land & sea until she reached the Nile...
...million in petrochemicals, may some day have as much as half of the company's assets in the industry. But Grace has no intention of stopping all expansion in South America. Last week he was putting the finishing touches on another one of his pet projects: a $5,000,000 DDT plant which the company will soon build, probably in Brazil...
...campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate's family-proud mother gave each of her children the same middle name, Houghton, and worked energetically at her own pet crusades: women's suffrage and birth control. She picketed the White House and delivered speeches on street corners. Young Kate was often beside her, handing out pamphlets...
...near Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...
Fearless Pagan (MGM) is a circus lion that tangles with the U.S. Army. When Pagan's owner (Carleton Carpenter) is inducted, he cannot bear to part with his playful pet, and secretly puts him up in a cage on the Army post. This leads to complications involving a hard-boiled sergeant (Keenan Wynn), an apoplectic colonel (Wilton Graff) and a visiting movie star (Janet Leigh). All ends happily, with Janet and Carleton finding love, and Fagan finding a home in Hollywood. The fadeout shows Fagan, majestically poised on a diving board, leaping into a movietown swimming pool...