Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk of military countermeasures. "The people must go on improving their way of life despite the war," he told Humphrey. "That is why we would prefer to see tractors arrive rather than weapons." Agreeing, Humphrey expounded eloquently on the TVA-style Mekong Valley development, one of Washington's pet pilot projects for an Asia at peace. "If we only had more time," sighed Humphrey at one point, "boy, I could have a ball." But the White House kept piling on new instructions and added assignments. And Jack Valenti, President Johnson's assistant, was along to fill...
...throws (28) and collected more rebounds (55) in one game than anybody else. Last week against the Detroit Pistons, Wilt got the record he wanted most of all. Playing in his 523rd game, Chamberlain sank a free throw for the 20,881st point of his career and broke Bob Pet-tit's alltime N.B.A. scoring mark...
...cliche. If you can maintain both distance and involvement simultaneously, Truffaut's films will lead to new perceptions about reality and illusion, about freshness and staleness. His other major film, Jules and Jim, shot in 1961, failed because of the magnetism of Jeanne Morean, which polarized Truffaut's pet duality out of existence...
Rivers-and-harbors bills are sometimes referred to as "pork-barrel bills," since Congressmen often attempt to have a pet project included. But Maass and Cooper contend that "the bill is more the President's bill than is much legislation, for almost all the projects in it have been recommended...
...thought you might be interested to know that while I was matriculating, which was toward the end of the depression, my roommates and I had as a pet a fullgrown panda named George. The summer before my final year at Harvard my father had brought her back with him from a trip to Tibet. I prevailed upon him to allow me to take the animal to school and keep her there, he being ignorant of the prohibition against having pets in the rooms. My roommates were of course delighted with George, and all went splendidly for almost a month...