Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winthrop, which finished second in the Harvard league, almost held on long enough to beat Ezra Stiles, but finally fell, 12-7. The Puritans scored first on their pet play of the day: halfback Pat Conaway took a handoff from quarterback Mitch Sikora and passed back to Sikora who had broken downfield and covered 60 yards for the score. Al Liebgott kicked the extra point, which loomed decisive when Stile's two-point conversion try failed after its third-quarter touchdown...
...fullback named Pete Walton led the Green parade with two touchdowns and a 7.7 yard pet carry average, but Gene Ryacwicz, Paul Klungness, and Bob O'Brien weren't far behind...
Worse, Belli's diagnosis was knocked down by his own star witness, Dr. Manfred Guttmacher, the veteran psychiatrist of Baltimore's criminal courts. Even though Guttmacher offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...
...diamond-peddling deal, corrosive humor in King's plan to breed rats and peddle their flesh as small jungle deer, a local delicacy ("For the luxury trade," he chortles, "brass only-majors and up!"). The film's most blistering episode concerns an anguished soldier's pet dog, condemned to death for killing a chicken. Later, the King invites his cronies to a stew dinner, prods the disgusted men into gulping down their consciences along with...
Quiet as Hell. Did the arrest presage a new cultural crackdown? So far, the Brezhnev-Kosygin regime has taken a moderate approach to intellectuals, avoiding the shrill, savage attacks of the Khrushchev era. Khrushchev's cultural hatchet man, Leonid Ilyichev, has been removed; Stalin's pet geneticist, Trofim Lysenko, has been disavowed by Russian science; imaginative and critical writing appears frequently in Soviet publications so long as it remains within limits. More importantly, B. & K. seem to recognize the sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this...