Word: petted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many of them accountable to a century-long feud between the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Lampoon. It has been stolen twice this year already, and has just returned to its perch. Now Lampoon members are threatening a 125-volt battery to fry anyone who gets playful with their pet in the future...
...Wilbur Mills. The arrests were made when more than 200 demonstrators marched to the Hill to demand that Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his potent House Ways and Means Committee repeal recent amendments limiting eligibility for the Aid for Dependent Children program. Mills has supplanted Lyndon Johnson as the pet hate of Negro militants-they plan to put up "Wanted" posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President's," he declared...
Believer in Personalismo. A firm believer in personalismo, Balaguer runs a tight, one-man government, dispensing all patronage, settling all arguments and making all decisions, even down to personally granting and signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes...
...Berkeley, the crisis produced two major committee reports, political and educational. The former committee was composed of prestigious representatives of the power structure not associated with the university. The latter, which came to be known as the Muscetine Committee, was staffed by moderate faculty members. These supposedly "pet" groups concluded their extended studies by submitting reports sharply critical of the administration. Publicly awkward and embarrassing, both reports were ignored...
...calls the "courts of kitchen drama," where sadness and hilarity contend in a constant, shaky equilibrium. The teenage scientist of In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All prankishly pipes non-toxic gas into neighborhood apartments, only to kill off all the animals in his father's pet shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment, goes mad and leaves his father...