Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your cutting "creeping censorship" story [TIME, May 5] fails to point out that reporters, often anxious to stay "on the good side" of some punk politician . . . have perhaps unwittingly and unethically abetted the new trend. Additionally, some publishers whet their pet ax on the "cant' we kill that story" these. Perhaps ours is the oldest profession after...
This avocation had its hazards. Once, while the naturalist was still a medical student, a pet capuchin monkey named Gloria became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...
Shakespeare's maturer comedies, boasting perhaps his most modern-style pair of lovers. Benedick'and Beatrice are no pastoral swain and sweetheart, no parties to Shakespeare's pet formula of Boy Turns Into Girl. Theirs is a lively sniping contest full of sophisticated scorn; they are as pert, as mocking, as hoity-toity-though by no means as hardhearted-as a Restoration gallant and belle. And the trick that is played on them-of causing each to overhear how the other adores him-still has laughter...
...windy and long were Labor's objections to the Tory proposal to charge modest fees for Labor's pet socialized medicine that in three days only nine lines of the bill had been dealt with by the House...
Back to Life. Luyet's next step was to develop a "freeze-dry" method so that frozen tissue could be dehydrated in a high vacuum. "It's one of my pet projects," he says. "We can think of the possibilities of drying a warm-blooded animal like a dog, rehydrating it and then expect it to live." The main problem, as Luyet sees it, is mechanical. It is not yet possible to freeze objects thicker than 1/100th of an inch into suspended animation...