Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson from wife Lady Bird Johnson came bad news on the L.B.J. front: Little Beagle Johnson, 7, pet of Lucy Baines Johnson, 11, had not come home for dinner. Alert reporters sounded alarms all over Washington, carried the stray's description into New Hampshire Avenue Animal Hospital, where an unidentified motorist had left a slightly battered beagle. Sure enough, it was the Johnson dog. The good word, couriered to the head of the family at a Democratic Steering Committee session, raised relieved senatorial cheers all around. Recovering after cortisone treatment for shock, and eased...
Machines to bypass the heart and lungs during operations inside the heart vary widely because surgeons have pet preferences about details. Biggest difference is in how the blood is oxygenated: some machines bubble the oxygen through the blood, others spread the blood in a thin film over screens in an oxygen-filled chamber. Virtually all the machines are now driven by an electric motor pump, and many need a squad of physicians and technicians to keep an eye on them...
...evolution of the elephant, from pre historic mastodons to Dumbo, with a side trip to Cambodia and a teary little documentary about an Indo-Chinese boy and his outsize pet...
Scarlet O'Hara's a spoiled pet, She wants everything that she can get The one thing she can't get is Rhett...
Strings or Noose? It began with Humphrey, who has few peers as an articulate, extended conversationalist, spending more than an hour in enthusiastic explanation of a pet project: an International Health Year, comparable to the current International Geophysical Year, for expanded exchanges of information in medical research fields. Khrushchev, Humphrey said later, responded warmly...