Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until he adopts a ferret named Jill. Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl. Stoats are the actual villains, but ferrets look mean, and an array of sinister powers is imputed to them, including the ability to impregnate women. Through his loyalty to his pet, the hero slowly learns that his instincts are different from those of his friends. The author is a Down man himself, now living in Wales. Although he is a born nature writer, his real strength is the creation of characters and situations that any Faulkner reader would recognize...
What the visitors will find should gladden their eyes and their metatarsal arches. Before designing the building, Architect Pereira examined the plan of every known museum, conducted an exhaustive questionnaire of museumgoers, resolved to cope with their pet peeves and hates. To beat museum fatigue, the floors are carpeted wall-to-wall; elevators spare staircase schlepping; Mies and Eames chairs beckon visitors everywhere. To defeat the claustrophobia resulting from endless galleries, there is plenty of glass and natural light. "We did not want it to be a forbidding place, full of cul-de-sacs, but a pleasant, outdoorsy place," Pereira...
...Saturday evening they had assembled in the center of the city. Most started to drink in local bars, becoming obnoxious and vulgar. They stood in the middle of the street, where they stopped vehicles, opened car doors and attempted to pet and paw female passengers in the automobiles. The women who accompanied the group lay in the middle of the street, where they went through suggestive motions. At about this time, some half-dozen motorcyclists invaded a bar and brutally beat an old man and attempted to abduct the barmaid. Shortly thereafter some dozen motorcyclists went to the local hospital...
Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
...concern with Viet Nam, President Johnson had plenty of time for politics and pet projects at home...