Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidently they have not. The plenum will have to deal with inefficient industrial production, the long-debated need for capitalist-style incentives, and the continuing failure of Soviet agriculture, including Khrushchev's pet virgin lands project in Kazakhstan. Certain to come under scrutiny will be the most violent outburst of discontent reported from Russia in years, last summer's riots in the southern city of Novocherkassk, which ended with the killing of hundreds of workers and housewives who protested against high prices and poor working conditions (TIME, Oct. 19). Moscow denied the whole thing, but according...
...Wonderland of Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, seven precocious Alices tucked their curves into kiddie clothes at ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood Dodge's Thank Heaven for Little Girls fashion show to raise money for her pet charity-Girls' Town, U.S.A.-an as yet unbuilt Florida home for "abandoned" girls from ten to 18 years old. Onto a makeshift stage pranced such moppets as Actresses Susan Kohner, 25, Susan Strasberg, 24, and Tisha Sterling, 17, daughter of Actress Ann Sothern; then came a formation of New York-Rome jet setlets, led by Harper's Bazaar playgirl Christina...
...tract but limited as fiction, scarcely able to survive its time and place. Even in less dated novels. Steinbeck's characters are not, as Edmund Wilson once wrote, "really quite human beings: they are cunning little living dolls that amuse us as we might be amused by pet guinea pigs, squirrels or rabbits...
Rogers was a terror in the courtroom. His pet technique was ridicule. Peering disdainfully at a witness through his lorgnette, flashing his mordant wit, he often provoked the jury to laughter-a near-sure sign he had won his case...
...history, except in 1951." He places the amount at $72 million-but in fact he almost talked his way out of the pork barrel. During the closing days of Congress, Morse objected to appropriating $10 million for a Government aquarium in Washington. As it happened, this was a pet project of Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, member of the public works subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Kirwan retaliated by knocking off the appropriations for three big Oregon public works projects. Morse speedily backed away, Kirwan got his aquarium and Oregon got its goodies...