Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penn co-ed remarked that "everything depends on the circumstances. Promiscuous petting is immoral. A girl doesn't have to pet to be popular, but she should not be completely cold and responding...
According to a Harvard freshman, "There's too much talk about necking and petting already. It's more important for a girl to dance a good rumba and to know some of the fine points of football than to spend her time worrying about whether she should pet...
White-Collar Squeeze. In London, after two customers helped him uncoil a 15-ft. python from around his neck, Pet Shop Owner P. E. Child gasped: "I think the time has come...
Irving Burton, in the American Mercury, called Wolff ". . . a legend in himself. A bulky, six-foot, gangling, stoop-shouldered eccentric, he delights in walking about Cambridge with his pet chimpanzee and asserts that he can tutor anyone possessing the brain of his ape through college...
...hoped that the feeling developed by a group membership would give the subscribers a certain personal attachment and responsibility which was absent in the ordinary solicitation. An annual gift to the "Friends" would be more like paying club does than kicking into a huge anonymous pet where it didn't really matter whether you gave or net. Here the feeling of membership in an association would lend an extra personal fillip to the request...