Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promptly persuaded his bride to sell her house, and they set off for the California coast in separate cars, with Vigliotto driving a van loaded with $36,000 worth of her cash and valuables. By the time she reached a San Diego hotel, she was alone except for her pet poodle...
...audiences, new magazines proliferate. There are now about 60,000 periodicals, new and old, published in the U.S. and Canada. Their subjects range from Patchwork Quilts to Gun Talk, not to overlook Dirt Bike magazine. Many of their readers concern themselves with politics only when politics intrudes upon their pet interests. But if their audiences are big or possibly significant enough, politicians come chasing. Playboy, Jimmy Carter decided, appeals to young fellows who do not follow the news closely and would never sit still for involved arguments, but might respond to idealized noises made amiably. The result was the famous...
Several years later came a heated debate over the University's investments in companies doing business in South Africa. Then, in the late 1970s, came a series of full-scale philosophical discussions of a subject closer to home: the Core Curriculum, Dean Henry Rosovsky's pet project and the first extensive reform of Harvard's undergraduate program in a generation. After the Core won Faculty approval on May 2, 1978, by a vote of 182-65, Class Day Speaker Rodney Dangerfield declared, "Believe me, the Core Curriculum is nothing compared to my mother-in-law." But most of the verbal...
...this point, I'm here as much to learn how the government works [as] to put pet theories into practice," says Summers, who is commonly described as "brilliant" by colleagues both in and out of government. "It's a very big government and it's easy to overstate how much one can put into practice...
Late Night with David Letterman (NBC). Laid-back and amiably hip, Letterman presides over a menagerie of stupid pet tricks, oddball celebrities and the man with the worm farm. A lullaby for the eccentric insomniac...