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Word: petted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have no lover but eight pet cats and one mad friend and one who thinks (ha ho) I am his wife...

Author: By Spencie Love, | Title: Women Liberation Lit | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

...DRAGON OF AN ORDINARY FAMILY, by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $4.95). "Dragon, Housetrained, Unusual Pet, Very Cheap, 50?," or so the sign said when Mr. Belsaki, the father of the ordinary family, went out to purchase an ordinary pet for son Gaylord. With considerable help from attractively grotesque illustrations, both the dragon and Belsaki's life soon expand on an extraordinary scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Rudofsky. Illustrated. 351 pages. Doubleday. $14.95. A U.S. architect, engineer and enraged gadfly, Rudofsky thinks American city streets are now and always have been ugly, dirty and unfit for human habitation; and he offers fascinating pictures, mainly from Europe, to show how things could be improved. Rudofsky's pet hates: noise, cars, haste, uniformity, ugliness, greed and his fellow countrymen's habit of suggesting that criticism is unpatriotic. What he wants more of and thinks feasible are steps, arcades, automobile-free streets, covered sidewalks, plazas suitable for strolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Rich Christmas Sampling | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Household word, household pet. Sic 'em, Spiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Interstate 75, he bought some smoked fish, and the proprietress, Mrs. Melina Hills, invited him into her kitchen for some homemade dandelion wine. She showed him a 20-lb. coho salmon she had "pulled outa the crick this mornin' " as well as photographs of the half-grown pet bobcat she had "potty-trained." Then, handing Fred a sponge soaked in anise oil, she confided: "Don't breeze it around, but that's the best buck lure there is. Just hang it on a tree near your blind." "How long will it last?" Fred asked. "For three rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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