Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship, the paratroopers gave her apples and cookies, sent her off to bring back her people. That night Sergeant Chef Guy Pinceau, who had jumped with his pet poodle stuffed in his leg bag, served a dinner of beefsteak, peas and condensed wine to 2,000 paratroopers in Hoa Binh. It had been the biggest drop ever in Indo-China, and another handsome victory for General de Lattre...
Lissome Anny Gould, a Parisian nightclub singer, thought some U.N. publicity might be exciting. While press photographers stood by, she waited last Friday on the steps of the Palais de Chaillot, ready to present her pet dove to the first U.N. delegate to appear. Johnny on the spot was Andrei Vishinsky. As shutters snapped, Anny stage-smiled and offered the dove to Vishinsky. "A symbol," said she, "of the peace we all want...
...process of preparing for the Big Weekend. On football week-ends, the halls of the Annex are quiet and foreboding. With a rough one to five ratio, a 'Cliffedweller can pick her pet from the pile...
Otherwise, the volume is perfect. Kelly drew some new portraits of his pet 'possum for the covers and title pages that picture his quaint whimsical attitude toward life...
...written expressly for readers who collect unusual sensations. For the ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters from Iceland to Italy...