Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first shipments will go to Connecticut and northern New York, and then the Calvert cocktails will be gradually introduced around the U.S. Sam Bronfman seems so smitten with the idea that Edgar may put out mixed drinks under the costlier Seagram label, which has always been Sam's pet trademark...
...snake you identified as a boa is actually an African rock python. The python usually makes a hardier, longer-lived, more interesting, gentler pet than the boa, and is much larger...
...that killed more than 170 Indians and Negroes in the months before the election, Burnham has formed a coalition Cabinet of many colors. His Cabinet includes Negroes, East Indians and whites-all working to patch up the country's sugar and bauxite economy. One of Jagan's pet schemes was a mandatory national "savings plan," under which the government automatically deducted 5% from every worker's wages and put the money into a government-run fund. When Jagan left, the treasury did not have enough funds to pay back the $3,650,000 collected under the plan...
...areas . . . and the preservation of natural beauty adjacent to highway rights-of-way." This means more restriction, for one thing, on outdoor advertising, for which Johnson plans to recommend more effective legislation to replace the present regulations, which expire in June. Also in for a sharp crackdown is a pet Johnsonian peeve-"unsightly, beauty-destroying junkyards and auto graveyards along our highways...
...preventive or cure is in sight, despite a great deal of work and even more folklore. As people grow older they naturally tend to have fewer colds -and therefore, says Andrewes, they tend to find "proof" that their own pet precautions really work. Useful vaccines may eventually be developed, but the difficulty is that there are too many cold viruses to put them all in one vaccine. What is needed is something like the influenza vaccine, a combination of the strains known to be prevalent at a given place and time. For the present, even that type cold vaccine...