Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cken (bridges) and Plätze (squares) were converted into Kennedy-Brücken and Kennedy-Plätze The John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Harvard was incorporated, with Bobby as president and Teddy as vice president. Nearly everybody in Washington agreed that Jackie's pet project, the proposed new national cultural center, should be named after Jack...
...investments in the chemical industry are sure to force a cutback in consumer production, housing, possibly defense; but the situation on Russian farms warrants it. Yields this year have been poor in the Ukraine and Siberia. Last week the administrator for the Vir gin Lands, Khrushchev's pet farm project, openly admitted disaster in his regions as well, citing staggering examples of mismanagement and inefficiency...
...Feeding a baby, once one of the major agonies of having one, has been made all but automatic by the Pet Milk Co., which has produced a pre-sterilized can of formula equipped with a sterilized nipple wrapped in plastic. At feeding time nothing more is needed than to peel off the nipple, open the can, tear off the plastic, replace the nipple, and begin feeding the baby one of a choice of four formulas at room temperature. Afterward, the whole unit is thrown away. Price: six 4-oz. or four 8-oz. cans for $1.29. Trial distribution began last...
...brings a kennelside manner that is frequently more tolerant of the animals than of their keepers. Yet Miller's readers have responded by sending him 1,000 or more letters a month, covering a comprehensive range of problems. Miller is up to most of them. "I had a pet worm named Elmer and my little brother ate him up," wrote a youthful Lumbricus fancier. "Could Elmer still be alive?" Replied Miller: "I'm afraid Elmer passed on long ago." A woman reader wanted to know if her male canary, who spent narcissistic hours kissing himself in a mirror...
...well-heeled small-town matron, thinking a canary too common a pet, keeps a live revolutionary caged in her drawing room instead...