Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Coast Guard officials are apparently planning to ship their elephant "Whitey" by flying box car to the West Coast, Legend has it that the Coast Guard acquired their big pet as a gift from the Ceylonese people three years...
Charlie, the CRIMSON's pet mouse, made an unexpected entrance from behind the cigarette machine. The wee beastie frightened 38 (count 'em) girls out of the building...
...White House lawn provided a cornucopia of attractions for the twin firmaments of the Washington week. Jacqueline Kennedy and Empress Farah (see THE NATION ). "Be sure," Fledgling Hostess Caroline Kennedy told Mother, "to show her Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said...
...Three of our constant companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic...
Front Man Wanted. By right of might, the man in control was General Poggi, 53, an anti-Perón soldier-engineer who has spent the bulk of his career in the Argentine army's industrial branch-a curiously unmilitary pet project of Perón's that still operates such fruitful enterprises as steel plants, chemical complexes, vehicle-assembly plants and motor-scooter factories. For a front man to give a semblance of legality, the military sounded out Senate President (pro tern) José Maria Guido, 52, a small-town lawyer and a member of Frondizi...