Word: petting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinners and now used mainly for ladies' teas. Its walls and silk draperies are a bright magenta trimmed in gold, setting off the portraits of eleven past U.S. Presidents. Thomas Jefferson has the place of honor over the mantel, taking the place of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and her pet collie...
Furnished rooms, cafeterias, pet cemeteries, and empty stares are the boundaries of the world The Savage Eye shows us with so much anger and so little respect. The effect is enormously depressing. But I wonder if only a kind of sentimentalism could see such total boredom and sin in the faces of these city people. It is hard to see what values the makers of this movie are applying to city life...
...holes. Hate. Hate. Hate. And besides, they won't work. Because, when the sky falls, that will be the end. People may get momentary security from your Fox Holes. But finally they will not or decompose or die of starvation or horrible disease. Women and children and pet parakeets--all will die." This prediction gave Henny Penny considerable satisfaction...
...those, the Congress approved 172. In general, the Congress gave the President almost everything he wanted in the field of national security. After desperate fights, it approved Kennedy Administration requests for the biggest housing bill in history, an increased minimum wage and new federal highway financing. But such pet Kennedy programs as aid to education and medical care for the elderly never even came to House votes. And in one of the bitterest blows of all. President Kennedy got for his vital foreign aid a half-loaf that did not meet his urgent demands for long-term borrowing authority...
...attache case, custom-built by the White House carpentry shop, is a portable desk, but in a pinch, Romagna has been known to recruit the nearest back for the same purpose. Recording presidential talks in the White House rose garden -a favorite informal speaking site-is Romagna's pet chore: "Provided the speech is not too long, I can take it down, run the 50 yards to my office and transcribe it. dash into the mimeo room and have 50 copies made, and run back up to the rose garden in time to hand them out to the press...