Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pet Milk Company's "all but automatic" feeding of baby I receive with a toss of my head. We mothers have the automatic line all sewed up and there's no Rip, Pop, Gurgle or Plop involved-just Sit, Cuddle, Nuzzle and Sigh with satisfaction. We call it Nursing...
...optimists of the aerospace industry, MOL points the way to the Air Force's pet project: manned orbiting space stations. Building and supplying a fleet of these stations will cost many billions of dollars per year, but Air Force space enthusiasts believe that the stations will pay for themselves by serving as military patrols-watching and photographing activity behind the Iron Curtain, inspecting suspicious satellites and destroying them, if desirable. Patrols might carry nuclear weapons for use against the ground or other spacecraft. Some optimists believe that they might even detect hostile nuclear submarines below the surface...
...hold that many of the tributes to J.F.K. are fitting. One of his pet projects, the Peace Corps, for example, could be rightly rechristened the Kennedy Corps. The Kennedy Memorial Library fund in Boston is also a fair gesture. However, Kennedyana, the Kennedy International Airport, Cape Kennedy, etc., are all exceeding the bounds of respect and entering the absurd...
...Nasser scheduled as few meetings as possible, instead loaded the visitor's schedule with trips to Nasser's pet projects, notably the Aswan Dam, where 2,000 Russian technicians could hardly escape Chou's notice. What with some $1.5 billion in Soviet aid and heavy dependence on U.S. wheat to feed Egypt, Nasser has had strained relations with Peking of late. Days before Chou's arrival, his press belatedly chided China for its attack on India...
...beginning of Devi (The Goddess), the attractive young girl Donamayee teases a pet bird and is teased in turn by her husband. Then, suddenly revealed as a incarnation of the Mother Goddess, she finds herself worshipped by her family, adored by crowds of pilgrims. She sits enthroned in an incense-clouded temple; priests chant and bells clang...