Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. More resourceful than most current fictional heroes, Mijbil the Otter could turn on a water tap, unzip a zipper and chew razor blades. As a pet, he was hilarious and heartwarming, and so is the book Author Maxwell has fashioned about...
...Ernst is a spry, bright-eyed artist whose most engaging trait is that he has never lost his sense of wonder or his sense of humor. The most routine experiences during his childhood in Briil, Germany-a walk into a forest, a case of measles, the death of a pet bird-produced visions that never left him. Somehow the most painful experience of his youth, his four years as an artillery engineer for the Kaiser, has become with time part nightmare and part joke. He was, he says, wounded twice at the front: once by the recoil...
Zippers & Fireplugs. Mijbil, the hero of this book, was about as ottery as an otter can get. Author Maxwell picked him up as a pup in the swamp country of Iraq -unaware at the time that in finding a pet he had also discovered a new subspecies (Lutirogale perspicillata maxwelli...
...neutralists, wanted a bigger role in the Security Council, the committees, and the Secretariat as well. "And they don't even have enough trained people to run their own countries," griped one Secretariat oldtimer. This week Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Manhattan to advance his pet scheme that an "all-Africa command" run the U.N. show in the Congo...
Assigned to a Cossack village, Davidov is soon packing a gun for protection and wrangling with his two assistants, one of whom stays up all night studying English while the other develops a mania for butchering the village cats to protect his pet pigeons...