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Word: petted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third have grown too cautious to speak to strangers, a fifth have become so terrified that they would prefer to move out of their present neighborhoods. More and more people report that they keep firearms at home for self-protection; watchdogs are becoming as popular as the friendly family pet. There is a growing tendency to believe that the Government cannot or will not protect the average citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CRIME & THE GREAT SOCIETY | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...long as the action is confined to one part of the stage, the acting goes nicely. Reynolds Smith is excellent as the wolf in "The Little Girl and the Wolf," and as the doctor in "The Pet Department." Judith Anderson is a most talented bourgeoise the part she plays in three sketches. A fine actress she, the best in the show. Peter W. Schandorff serves well as an Englishman and a Viennese...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: A Thurber Carnival | 3/18/1967 | See Source »

...Million Years B.C. is a gaudier and bawdier copy of a prehistoric (1940) Hollywood epic about life at the yawn of prehistoric mankind. This time it is in color by DeLuxe, but once again, the sound track consists of groan-up dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus-the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Yawn of Mankind | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...know, endorsements? So we don't want to spoil that by giving away the names of foods he ate, things he drank. So we'll just say in his life story, 'I believe he was born champion, waiting to be cultivated. And one great cultivation was Pet Milk.'" Mother Clay interrupts. "No, no. We won't name the milk, we'll just say, 'the milk his mother gave him.' Then we can sell advertisements to them later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gee Gee | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The Blind Bird, produced in Russia, tells of a boy's attempts to restore the sight of his pet pelican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 10, 1967 | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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