Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will, by the way, was hidden in a fireplace by the old actor's pet crow. This is obviously a corny gimmick, and Cotten applies equally corny detective logic to find...
...Wentworth, Ga. built a new industrial water plant to attract the Southern Paperboard company. Natchez, Miss, "clarified" the state stream pollution law to get the Johns-Manville insulation board plant. In Greenville, Tenn., some schools joined in educating the populace in the art of dairy farming to help the Pet Milk Co. build up a milk supply for its new processing factory...
Ceramics always make a distinctive gift, but hand-made ceramics by New York's Iona Deur are also true pieces of art. Each object is done individually to order. You may have someone's initials, a portrait of a pet, or an illustration of a hobby put on any piece...
...story called Green Thoughts, for instance, a flower fancier is devoured by his pet orchid and converted into a huge blossom in his own likeness. In his new shape, he is recognized by a resentful nephew, and efficiently hacked to pieces by the lout, who rather enjoys the flower's screams. In Thus I Refute Beelzy, a father refuses to believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings...
...false. He backed the plan to the hilt. Nor, says Churchill, did he,try for a Balkan invasion. What he did fight for, and did not get, was a conquest of the Aegean Islands that might bring Turkey into the war on the allied side. Because they blocked his pet plan, both F.D.R. and Eisenhower got a taste of Churchillian wrath: "There ought, I think, to be some elasticity and a reasonable latitude in the handling of our joint affairs ... I will not waste words in explaining how painful this decision...