Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted, in the language of the true eccentric: "Men just can't compete with me. I'm super...
...wryly charge that Brazil's official motto, "Ordem e Progresso," has in the process become "Disorder and Progress." Kubitschek has printed almost as many inflationary paper cruzeiros (66.9 billion) as were printed in all of Brazil's previous history. He ignores Congress, shifts its appropriations to his pet projects-road building and Brasilia...
Thomas Alva Edison's pet hates were "small-brained" capitalists and "bulge-head" professors. He disliked capitalists because they never put enough money into his proliferating inventions, and professors because they ridiculed his nearly total ignorance of algebra. Said Edison: "I can hire mathematicians at $15 a week, but they can't hire...
...Gaulle's pet plan, which is reminiscent of the arrangement between Puerto Rico and the United States, seems a wise and a moderate one. On the one hand, Algeria is disastrously unready for complete independence. It has no real economy of its own and no responsible leaders to give it political direction. On the other hand all but a few extremists in France have realized that the war must end and that in order to maintain its vital interests France must give up some interests that are less important. De Gaulle's solution, in short, is one that should appeal...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging." The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government. Harvard...