Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving the Marines time to dive for cover, though the North Vietnamese have an ominous new gun of unknown make that gives only a one-second warning. The men of Gio Linh have developed acute ears for descending shells, but the alert is usually given first by Hardcore, their pet Vietnamese mongrel dog. When Hardcore starts whining and heading for cover, the entire camp follows...
...other convicts and their wives will have moved quietly into the neighborhood; another couple is due before Christmas. Unlike parolees, the live-out prisoners have their rent subsidized by the state, the goal being to ease the transition to civilian life for cons with good records. It is the pet project of Swedish Prisons General Director Torsten Eriksson, who so far has every reason to expect success. This summer he sent ten prisoners off for three weeks of fishing, swimming and hiking in a small mountain resort. Everyone liked that so much that there was not one attempt to escape...
Many signs are posted in Glacier National Park warning of the presence and danger of grizzly bears. Likewise, at Yellowstone National Park the visitor is warned by innumerable signs not to feed, pet or tamper with bears (mostly black bears). However, one tourist went so far as to try to place a child, piggyback, on a black bear for photographic purposes...
...East Germany. There, all workers are now called Werktdtige - work-active persons. The East Germans have also dropped the use of the term Pro- letariat, because intellectuals and white-collar workers felt left out. Rationelle Arbeit, which means rational work in West Germany, has become East Germany's pet euphemism for work per formed in accord with party goals. In the West German dictionary, aufrusten means t6 rearm. The East German dictionary warns that when the word is used in Bundesdeutsch, or Federal German, it means "to increase the number of troops and their equipment with aggressive intentions...
...front one. As the police pointed out, "Everyone who had access is a suspect." Marylou discovered the theft just before going out to a dinner in honor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is playing at this year's Saratoga Performing Arts Center, one of Sonny's pet projects. She went to get her jewel box, stashed away between blankets in the linen closet ("one of my four secret places," she says), and discovered the jewels were missing. "I had to go through the whole party without anybody knowing," she recalls. "I drank lots of champagne and tried...