Word: petted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoax and Fraud. The Chinese, in turn, celebrated their birthday with a few good licks at the Russians. The People's Daily warned the Chinese to be on guard against surprise attacks by social imperialism, a pet designation for Russian policy. As for Brezhnev's peace offer, the Chinese dismissed it as "a hoax and a fraud." They told visiting British Journalist Neville Maxwell that they and not the Russians had taken the first steps toward trying to resolve the tense confrontation that exists along their long border with the Soviet Union...
Grandma doesn't buy the book for her grandson. She sends $4.49 plus postage and handling and fills in a computer card. The kid's name, street number and birth date, and the name of his sister, brother, dog, cat (or other pet) and friend. Let's say Tommy Snooks of 123 Hickory Stick Lane, with Sister Bunny, Brother Spiro, Dog Tuggles, Cat Snuggles, etc. Eventually, from Dart Industries, Inc., which, as the card says, "also brings you Tupperware, Rexall, Vanda Beauty Counselor and West Bend brand family products," comes a book...
...Tommy Snooks with love and kisses from Grandma Snooks." The line below the title says, "Your personal story by the magic computer." Thereafter, in the four titles so far to be offered, Tommy and Tuggles and Snuggles, et al. do all sorts of things. Get a giraffe for a pet (My Friendly Giraffe), have a party (My Birthday Land Adventure), travel around as the representative of Santa Claus (My Special Christmas), and go to an animal fair (My Jungle Holiday...
...world awaited. That should be qualified: a quite special world awaited the Riggs-King spectacle, a well settled suburban world. It is true that the sidelines were anything but suburban, packed instead with movie made stars and other with-it celebrities. But tennis has for years been the pet game of these beautiful few. The Efren Zimbalist Jr. Open is by now an old institution. No, the match was made for newer fans. For the country clubbers from Palm Beach to Piping Rock, for all mixed doubles faddists, for the people who have made tennis Big Business, the match...
...vermeil plates originally cast for Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. Guests could view the most extensive collection of Czarist icons and jewelry outside the Soviet Union, the result of a Post buying spree in Moscow with her third husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. At Hillwood, Mrs. Post's pet schnauzer slept in a bed once used by Belgian royalty...