Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution. If the scheme materializes, Galbraith may be able to tackle a pet embassy project, building a nuclear power plant and a giant steel mill that would dwarf a similar, propaganda-packed Soviet showpiece...
...American car, the other babies the foreign jobs, especially the Rollses. In fact, the fellow fits covered, foam-rubber pads on the bumpers before he gets behind the wheel (Rolls owners may buy a pair of the pads at $75). And since it would never do to leave a pet inside a Rolls during dinner, Restaurateur Peter Fairchild also provides three dog kennels fitted with drains and red fire hydrant, and offers "succulent ground sirloin that will be served gratuitously by our attendant...
...mystical German poet Rainer Maria Rilke who started him on his career. One day when he was eleven, Balthus showed the poet some drawings he had made of a pet cat that had suddenly disappeared. The poet was so enchanted that he wrote a little text to accompany the drawings, and in time they were published in a little book. Artist friends of the family-Bonnard, Derain, Vuillard-encouraged the boy and even gave him lessons. By the time he was 28, Balthus was an established painter in his own right...
Secret Knowledge. Like any smart organization man. Eichmann realized he must develop a specialty to compensate for his lack of leadership qualities. His rather routine work of compiling dossiers on "subversive elements" suggested a convenient subject-the Jews, who were the pet phobia of der Fŭhrer himself. Eichmann began reading Jewish history and religion, made an effort to learn Yiddish and Hebrew. He dazzled his colleagues-whose hatred of Jews was only equaled by their ignorance about them-with speeches on such abstruse subjects as the factional differences between two small Zionist groups-Poale-Zion and Zeire-Zion...
...exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded after human arms and hands by means of a general...