Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement was a Rockefeller document, couched in the language of Rockefeller writers, quoting many phrases, sentences, even whole sections, from the one-man platform that Rockefeller had submitted to Chuck Percy two weeks before (TIME, July 18). Main provisions: FOREIGN POLICY. Nixon accepted Rockefeller's pet proposal for regional "confederations." DEFENSE. Shaking off his burden of defending Administration defense policies without reservation, Nixon agreed that the "military posture" of the 1950s would not do for the 1960s, joined in a call for more and better bombers, an airborne SAC alert, more missiles, dispersed bases, greater limited-war capability...
...intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother Nhu's advice on army promotions, government appointments and business contracts. One, of Nhu's pet projects is the Can Lao Nhan Vi (Revolutionary Labor Party), whose 70,000 "underground" members throughout the nation spend much of their time giving police information about their neighbors. There is persistent Saigon gossip about corruption in "high places," and, invariably, the names of Nhu and his wife are linked...
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. The author gives a fascinating solution to one of the century's least urgent problems-how to bring up a lion as a pet...
There is something magnificently arrogant about the way Boud and Decca extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. The author, drawing on her own experience as the wife of a Kenya gamekeeper, gives a detailed and fascinating solution to one of the least urgent problems of the century -how to bring up a lion as a pet...