Word: petted
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...those also, loyal to the author's point of view, who will harm his reputation by imputing characteristics to the award at which he never hinted. But beyond these are the people who know a triviality when they see one, who will grant the man the right to his pet aversions and to the Pulitzers. Their fair administration of an institution which has not only inspired creative effort but directed public attention toward the serious products...
...fundamental problems of education, as well as the particular problems of Harvard. Undoubtedly Oxford undergraduates could, produce an equally constructive criticism of their university, but they never have and would not be listened to if they did. Undergraduates over there accept the "system" without question, although not their teachers' pet ideas...
Proud of his pet, Worker Moe despatched it to his grandmother, Fru Sigurd Bugg-Moe at Bergen, Norway. Fru Bugg-Moe was bitten by the squirrel while attempting to make it perform on Christmas...
...married Bessie Bell, a Hadley (Mass.) girl, who had illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky...
Then, as if knowing his words were vain, he seemed to give up argument and to abandon himself to an emotional plea for his pet bill. He spoke of his undeveloped, unappreciated, unknown country...