Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that really happened, you, like thousands of other gullible Americans, have been taken in by one more of the hundreds of urban legends that regularly make their spoken way across the country. "The Mexican Pet" is nevertheless, the authentic title story of Jan Harold Brunvand's third collection of whoppers. Together, these new wives' tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled...
...friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated hand...
...conferees repeatedly got hung up, mostly on what Rostenkowski / defined simply as the question of "who benefits and who pays." Many of the legislators had pet industries whose breaks they fought bitterly to protect. One example: Gephardt, of all people, supported Republican Senator John Danforth in arguing for continued special treatment of the profits of defense contractors (some of the biggest are based in their home state, Missouri...
Serpell's pet theories embrace the familiar argument that modern culture has placed artificial barriers between man and the natural world. Like many who confront this idea, he can be nostalgic in his definitions. The hunter- gatherers of the ice age, for example, are idealized as the beneficiaries of a golden period. Animals were considered edible but equal; protein was plentiful, and work hours fewer than they would ever be when Homo sapiens organized into agricultural communities...
...first known pet owner may have lived 12,000 years ago in what is now northern Israel. There, in 1978, archaeologists discovered two Paleolithic skeletons: an aged human with its hand resting on the remains of a five-month- old dog. Serpell interprets this as an affectionate gesture, and only a churl would suggest that the evidence is slender...