Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Randolph Hearst's trained seals, none were quicker on their flippers than the correspondents in his Washington bureau. When The Chief snapped, they did verbal, handstands for MacArthur, steadily honked that Dean Acheson was being fired any minute, tugged in pet Congressmen to sound off on any Hearstian cause...
...Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made the army's General Chou Chih-jou instead of Mao commander in chief of the air force...
...military used to state its needs bluntly, leave to somebody else the onus of ruling that the nation couldn't afford it). George Marshall likes to say that the U.S. cannot mobilize too fast, or it will be "all dressed up with no place to go." Another pet Pentagon phrase capsules a planner's fear: that once production is really turned on, "the damned stuff will be running out of our ears." Even more basic to military men is the fear of overproducing the obsolete: if the U.S. has all the planes it needs to fight...
...thrall at machine-gun point by a tyrannical seaman named Ichiro. The Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes of companions killed by accidents or internal strife, a pet cat and a new version of Inoue's story. The petty tyrant of Ana-tahan, it seemed, had been not Ichiro, but Inoue himself. His highhanded rule caused his compatriots to banish him from their group to a lonely spot on the island from which he had engineered...
...Says Columnist Doris Fleeson, the capital's top woman reporter: "There's too little reporting, too much thumb-sucking in this town." Many correspondents are not in Washington to report; they are there to give their papers prestige, run errands for the publisher and lobby for his pet ideas, or to make routine checks...