Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion...
...Alexander last night denied Dr. Schreiber's counter-charge that the move to remove him from his post is "Communist-inspired." He termed the German "a special pet of the Russians" who only fied the Soviet zone of Germany when the Western powers declared an amnesty on Nazi war criminals...
...Alexander, who acted as civilian consultant for the Allies at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, said Dr. Schreiber "was a special Russian pet from 1945 to 1948," but that he fled to West Germany after an amnesty for war criminals had been declared. "Now he thinks the heat is off, and he's come over to our side," Dr. Alexander added...
...note, ringed around with Knox's usual qualifications ("It's possible that . . . I'm inclined to think . . ."), to the effect that a more emotional approach to religion was due, as there had not been one for over half a century. This is Knox's pet subject and for 30 years his secret preoccupation, which has resulted in a recent work, Enthusiasm. In it he examines the most violently emotional and "inspired"' religious phases of the last nineteen centuries. Knox the quiet listener attends these outbursts with sympathy; Knox the priest notes them as heresies; while...
...every girl takes such as optimistic view of things. For as a Carnegie Tech co-ed put it recently. "Out here things are tough for a girl. On the first date you kiss, on the second your neck on the third you pet, and on the fourth you fight for your honor...