Word: petted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after carousing about in a seaside forest and D major for twenty minutes ("A la chasse, a la chasse!") become upset over an ominous tremolo in the strings; the lights go out, the wave machine starts up, and to cries of "Quel bruit! Quelle flamme I'environe!", Neptune's pet sea-dragon emerges in a cloud of smoke. Hippolyte conveniently rushes in, is promptly swallowed (whole), and the scene ends with the chorus solemnly incanting, "O disgrace cruelle ... Hippolyte n'est plus." (Needless to say, the libretcist took his liberties with Rachine's Phedre; Paristans must have been pleased...
...Desperate." Prouty, 59, a flinty, former small-town mayor from upstate Vermont, has been trying for years to get his pet project passed into law. Last week, armed with an impressive array of statistics and endorsements for his amendment, he argued that many retired citizens-notably schoolteachers, farmers and policemen-are in desperate financial straits because they never qualified for social security. "The poverty program," he said, "benefits 50,000 young people in the prime of life. The Prouty amendment benefits 1.5 million older Americans in their dim and often desperate years...
...amendments, according to White House estimates, would have lopped $1 billion in revenue from the House-passed bill to raise an additional $6 billion. After powerful arm wrenching, Administration forces persuaded a House-Senate conference committee to knock out Hartke's amendment. But Prouty's pet, though watered down, remained. As finally approved by the conference, it would 1) provide $35 monthly for individuals, $52.50 for couples; 2) benefit only persons who are 72 or older or who reach that age by Jan. 1, 1968, and are not receiving a specified amount of Government assistance from other sources...
...some eminence in the U.S. literary world, is, at 40, in his fifth year of psychoanalysis in Vienna. His most obvious problems are love and money. A countess offers him a permanent income as an opera escort and house pet. An American girl student offers love and even to take care of his frowsty digs. He refuses both, and his analyst gives him up as a bad job. By way of farewell to psychotherapy, Samuel S says: "This final session has given me the biggest insight of all. That if I am ever cured, I will never know...
...girl, Gretchen Fritz, 17. Some, after Gretchen and her sister Wendy, 13, disappeared, seriously suspected that he had carried out his threat. Several of his intimates thought they knew that a year earlier he had dispatched another girl, Alleen Rowe, 15, as wantonly as he had once smashed a pet cat against a wall. Even so, if one of Smitty's pals, fearing that his own girl friend was next in line for liquidation, had not finally told the police all about his homicidal hero, Tucson might never have caught up with its budding Bluebeard...