Word: petted
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MAINLY, THE CUBE is a conversation piece, like the wastebasket collages of Picasso and Braque. It may or may not reflect the dimensionality of man's existence, the shape of our times, or the pretentiousness of slim gold-tipped cigarettes. A bauble that combines the simplicity of pet rocks with engineering savvy, the Cube gratifies our desire for bric-a-brac. In a society where even most of the poor can watch television dreams, the struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes...
...Before Harry Hopkins arrived on the scene, Roosevelt had a pet scheme of his own for the unemployed. An ardent conservationist, he wanted thousands of the jobless to work in the nation's parks and forests. His Civilian Conservation Corps prompted William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to protest that "it smacks of Fascism, of Hitlerism, of a form of Sovietism." By the middle of July 1933, however, more than 300,000 youths between 18 and 25 were at work under Army discipline in 1,300 CCC camps. Among other things, they helped plant more than...
When offered a pet for the White House, Nancy demurred. "It is wrong for me to have a dog in the White House," she said. "I want my dogs to be able to run." She doted on the novel Spring Moon, Bette Lord's story of a Chinese family through several generations, and she read deeply in White House lore. She declares that she has not yet heard a strange sound or witnessed an odd event she could claim was ghostly...
...Steve Better G 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HAPVAFD 15 57 96 153 213 19 3 5 Conquent 15 59 99 158 218 18 1 9 INDIVIDUAL GOALTENDING No. Name W-I-T GR Mins. Saves GA Pet. Avg. 27 Wade Lau 5-8-1 14 845 403 54 .882 3.83 1 Steve Better 0-1-0 2 66 34 4 .895 3.63 HARVARD 5-9-1 15 918 437 59 .881 3.86 Opponent...
Much of the $106 million budget for the legislature goes to pay the salaries of its 1,000 employees. Ninety-three of those are sergeants at arms, who have been routinely dispatched to pick up laundry, chauffeur wives and, in one case, to feed live mice regularly to a pet snake belonging to former Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti. The majority of the legislative staff, of course, is engaged in legitimate work. But critics question the propriety, let alone the need, of hiring 200 new aides this year. Most of the 78 additional senate staff members, according to President Pro Tempore...