Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof." See FOREIGN NEWS, The Wanted American...
...tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen, and the saint's pet cat went along in a basket...
...More Romance? This fits in with another pet Toynbee thesis. Agricultural civilization, which tied man down to a parcel of land and produced the territorial type of community, is being replaced, Toynbee theorizes, by a "mechanical-industrial dispensation," which "resembles the food-gathering and hunting one in a significant particular. In contrast to the cultivator of the soil, the aboriginal Australian food gatherer and the ultramodern immigrant Australian or American industrial worker are like each other in both being rootless ... If we want a label for the now dawning third age of human history, we can call it equally well...
...Pet's Milk. The new products of 1960 have something for every member of the family. Westinghouse has a new thermoelectric baby-bottle minder that keeps the milk cold until feeding time, then automatically warms it. When it is ready, it sounds an alarm to wake up mother. To make sure baby goes back to sleep, the Evenflo-Lullaby bottle plays Brahms's Lullaby. For the household pets, the new est drinks are Dog Nog and Cat Lap-canned milk for animals, develooed by onetime New York Advertising Man Arthur D. Talbott. While conducting market research on milk...
Jack Kennedy, angry and frustrated by his inability to force through even one pet project, was left empty-handed and-far worse-derided by the Republicans for failure to rally the overwhelming Democratic majorities behind his program. In the last fitful week, two more of Kennedy's cherished bills-the minimum-wage extension and the school aid bill-went down the drain. Kennedy himself was head of the Senate delegation that went to a Senate-House conference committee trying to work out a compromise between his own version of the minimum-wage bill (boosting wages from...