Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddest pets in pet-loving Britain are two electric turtles named Elmer and Elsie. They play around the home of Dr. W. Grey Walter, head of the physiological department of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol. Elmer and Elsie are not exactly alive. Under their shiny steel shells are no flesh & blood, but only mechanical organs. They take no interest in each other, and could not, in any case, reproduce. But wandering around Dr. Walter's house, they act much like real live animals...
Call of the Wild. In Nashville, members of Vanderbilt University's Kappa Alpha Order (Southern) eagerly chased what they thought was their deodorized pet skunk, name of General Sherman, learned too late it was another skunk...
...from Tennessee, 81, relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas. Under the congressional rules which promote men by seniority instead of ability, Spoilsman McKellar wields immense power. As chairman of the Senate's money-spending machinery, he browbeats and bullies Senators who need his approval for their pet projects. He badgered David Lilienthal because Lilienthal refused to load TVA with McKellar patronage, yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee and on the floor, has long...
Even at his own tea table, Epstein is a lonely looking and rather frightening figure. Mountainous, with a fighter's set face and contemptuously protruding lower lip, he speaks in a forbidding rumble. Modern art, curiously enough, is one of his pet hates: "When I get discouraged I look at Picasso's stuff and then I feel better about what I'm doing." He himself once flirted with cubism, "but I abandoned the lady very early and since then she has prospered under other patronage." The semi-abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, with their pinheads and pierced...
Federal aid is the pet solution of many. They see a program of unrestricted subsidies, with government money pouring into colleges and universities. This money would permit modernization and expansion of college plants, they say, and prevent a cutback in the number of students and size of faculty. Most educators, however, feel that the idea of government endowment without government control is a pipedream...