Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battery of three commercials per station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief argument with wife or kissing wife up to seven times...
Perhaps the jolliest benefit of being really rich is that we can do little things in a big way like the Detroit race-track owner who gave sports cars as favors to a dozen dinner guests. We all have our pet charities, and some of us even have crusades for example, H. L. Hunt, the Texas oil billionaire, spends millions on propaganda against assorted people whom he regards as Red subversives. Then in Britain, there's Sir Cyril Black, the rich Tory MP, who is dedicated to protecting the "moral" working class from dirty books. As he sees...
...also a gay and lively home, which with ten children-three of whom, Kathleen, 16, Joseph, 15, and Robert Jr., 14, bear the names of Kennedys who died violently-and a bizarre menagerie was never dull. A Kennedy pet census once counted two horses, four ponies, one burro, two angora goats, three dogs, three geese, two cockatoos, one cat, one guinea pig, 40 rabbits, one turtle, one alligator turtle, 22 goldfish, 15 Hungarian pigeons and five chickens. A sea lion named "Sandy" was regretfully banished after it began chasing guests. Ethel, now 40, never quite lost her sense of wonder...
...Detroit, a man named Lobsinger tells a Lions Club meeting that the ghetto riots there were "training exercises" for a Communist takeover of the U.S., and that prudent citizens should 1) arm themselves, and 2) lay in a one-month supply of beans, canned foods, brewers' yeast, pet food, evaporated milk, whisky, toilet paper, soap and "haircutting tools" for use during the coming disorders. After the meeting, a club member tells Wakefield: "Hell, on my block we're already armed...
...theory landing them in Albania to stir up resistance, but in fact sending them straight into the guns of the Albanian Communist troops, whom he had tipped off. But he worried over some innocent emigrants mistakenly interned as German agents during World War II. He also wept when his pet fox was pushed off the balcony by his maid in Beirut and killed. With every reason to hate him, Eleanor Philby can write: "Our marriage was perfect in every way. He was the most lovely and devoted husband and a marvellous father...