Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pentagon Discipline. In drawing up President Eisenhower's 1961-62 defense budget, each service is throwing in a little bit of money for a little bit of everything, in hopes that the Kennedy Administration can be sold on as many pet projects as possible. But the exercise may well be futile. After long conversations with Defense Secretary-designate Robert McNamara, Pentagon Research Chief Herbert York (who will stay on for a while in the next Administration) tells friends that the Defense Department will soon come to feel a "new discipline" in the development of new strategic weapons systems (there...
...kept him bound in golden chains for 14 years until he died in 1935. Though his cousin became the Empress Zauditu, Ras Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death in 1930, he mounted the throne (with typical flamboyance, he had five pet lions chained to the coronation dais). He took unto himself the name of Haile Selassie ("Power of the Trinity") and the titles Elect of God, King of Kings and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah...
Behind the switch from fact to fiction is one of Lederer's pet theories on writing: "When you write, you want to communicate with as many people as possible. In this case, that meant a novel...
Shaky though the Ivy League is, the outside world won't leave it alone. That insidious publication, Sports Illustrated, last week scored "the opposition of President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, who tolerates football with only slightly concealed hostility," to its pet proposals: spring practice for the Ivy League and the right of participation in post-season bowls for its players...
...novels), an O'Hara-like man who has been a reporter and pressagent and who, in middle age, is a successful novelist. In the first volume, The Girl on the Baggage Truck, he is a major character, a young publicity man who avoids, mostly by luck, becoming the pet poodle of an aging actress. Malloy is an observer in the next book, Imagine Kissing Pete, concerning an adulterous marriage that worked better than expected. There is a hint in this one of sentimentality, a quality to which the 20th century reacts as the 19th did to sex-with outward...