Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triangle. Near Lorain, Ohio, Susan Back told police that she stabbed her boy friend, Sherman Bigley, in the hip because he had stolen the affections of her pet monkey...
...Rotterdam brewery worker, Van Dongen hardly expected to become a pet of the upper classes: art was more serious than that. At twelve, he sold his first picture to a butcher ("It was the portrait of a cow"), and at 20 set out for Paris. There he shared a shed with young Pablo Picasso, who was peddling his own pictures for 5 francs apiece. "We shared our models and we shared our mistresses," says Van Dongen. "For almost ten years, we got along fine...
University of Wisconsin: "...Alma Mater of so many Reds, is now lavender, where swishes of both sexes stop lolligagging for their other pet pastime--getting up petitions against Joe McCarthy...
...Social Relations Department, while trying to eliminate malpractices among its thesis-writing students, has chosen to overlook a particularly outrageous policy on the part of its thesis-supervising faculty members. These professors, anxious to complete a pet research project, simply assign the problem to a willing senior, putting office staff, equipment, and expense accounts at his disposal, and later accepting his results as an honors thesis. Thus students in other departments, working independently, must watch a privileged few get their ideas and procedures devised by faculty members and handed to them on a silver platter. This is especially unfair...
Help Wanted ads seldom offer jobs-only "openings" and "positions." Babies to be cared for are always "darlings." Lost dogs are inevitably "the pet of an invalid grandmother" or belong to a "heartbroken little girl." Dogs for sale are recommended variously in classified newspaper ads as "love that money can't buy," "darlings," "cuddlies," and "swell pets." Most refined touch: a bitch with a litter of pups listed as a "matron...