Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swimming 74, Penn St. 39 Team W L T Pet. RPI* 18 1 0 .947 Harvard* 14 4 1 .763 Clarkson* 14 5 0 .737 Cornell 13 5 1 .684 Yale* 12 7 1 .625 St. Lawrence* 10 9 0 .526 Colgate* 8 11 0 .421 Princeton 6 11 2 .368 Brown 6 14 0 .300 Vermont 4 15 0 .211 Dartmouth 3 15 1 .184 Army 0 11 0 .000 *Clinched home ice for quarterfinal playoffs. *Clinched a quarterfinal playoff spot...
...dogs, for whom the product is intended, is a tendency to develop silky coats. Birth control in a can, though, is not yet suitable for cats, since the finicky felines do not eat as regularly as dogs. If the FDA approves Carnation's application, contraceptive chow will be on pet-food shelves by year...
...quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high and mighty, is free to sound like a nitwit...
...should crown Ronald Reagan king. It is rather late to make America a monarchy true, but this coronation will simply recognize a falt accompli: Ronald Reagan has become our royal pet. What a magnificent image he projects! Thousand, perhaps millions revere him. Even his enemies call him the Great Communicator. As long as he is fed fine speeches by the tele-prompter and--with the right lights--looks bracingly American, no one cares if he rides horses when he should be working, or is fed lines by Nancy at press conferences. In all honesty, he would be a great ruler...
Ralph: Perfectly adequate, my pet. But something must have been bothering all the stewardi. None of them seemed able to smile much...