Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgent business all last week to make bows to the folks back home. Illinois' big, white-shocked Paul Douglas, singularly unbowed after threescore attempts to chop the omnibus appropriations bill, was back like a nagging conscience at the Senate's fat, pampered $700 million program for pet home-town works. The bill, said Douglas, has many features dubious in peacetime, "and even more dubious in wartime." Six eastern Republicans agreed with him, and proposed a flat...
...Buffalo's airport, as he got off the plane from Chicago, a news photographer flashed a picture of him. The tired old man took a harried, halfhearted swing at his annoyer, and missed. After he got into his car, he let the photographer take another shot, with his pet terrier nuzzled up to him. "At least somebody loves me," he said plaintively. Ailing, 63-year-old Joe McCarthy, baseball's "winningest" manager, was heading into retirement...
Sofia Rilke was annoyed. Had not the daughter of an Imperial Councillor, the wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...
However worthy, such pet projects did not seem altogether pertinent to UNESCO's director general, Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexico's able former Minister of Education, who is an impatient man. Cracked one UNESCO representative last week: "For Torres Bodet, manana means today." Bodet had a pet project of his own-nothing more nor less than peace. He favored a Yugoslav suggestion for an international intellectual congress for peace, a Belgian proposal to form a committee to study the effects of new weapons, a Czech plan to outlaw atomic weapons. When the conference rejected these projects, Bodet got sore...
Castellanos had fought the Auténticos with one of the strangest political alliances in the republic's history. Behind him were right-wing Republicans, former Dictator Fulgencio Batista, ex-President Grau San Martin (who is Batista's pet hate) and Cuba's small (140,000 members) Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party). The comrades made the most of the coalition victory. Crowed their daily, Hoy: "We salute the overwhelming victory of national significance of our candidate...