Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism in a free society. Last week the two systems clashed head-on at a 38-nation conference in Casablanca to launch the All-African Trade Union Federation, pet project of Nkrumah and such pals as Guinea's Sekou Toure...
...chief executive of the state of Alabama whirled into action. "Hey," he yelled. "Hey, don't you all kill that toad!" Patterson jumped up from the table and sprinted across the lawn to save a horned toad, a family pet that is consigned by Tuti to a vagabond's life in the garden...
...bride at his side, Hussein drove through Amman's streets in a cream-colored Mercedes to take the cheers of most of the city's population. That night the couple retired to one of Hussein's palaces, Basman, where they had the company of two pet lions...
Handicappers & Treasure Hunters. The library can tell a harried mother what to feed her daughter's new pet eel, or help wives to trace runaway husbands and illegitimate sons to find their fathers. FBI agents constantly thumb the library's foreign and domestic phone directories from 2,700 cities, and many a barroom argument is settled with a quick call to the sober Information Division. About the only thing that ever flustered the library was New York's rage a few years ago over the Herald Tribune's "Tangle Town" puzzle contests. To stem brawls...
...pet congressional practice is to send constituents flags that have actually flown over the U.S. Capitol. With the flags provided at cost (ranging from $2.91 to $6.25), the service has become so popular that last year a fulltime flag raiser, employed by the Capitol architect's office at an annual salary of $4,400 did his duty 16,013 times, or an average of 61 times a day. Last week Capitol Architect J. George Stewart asked Congress to authorize one more flag raiser at the same salary...