Word: petting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow policies that will be tougher, and more palatable to senior military experts on Capitol Hill, than were McNamara's. Clifford emphatically endorsed a program of "nuclear superiority" vis-a-vis Russia; McNamara had advocated a program of "nuclear parity." Without committing himself, Clifford also supported such congressional pet projects -which McNamara opposed-as development of an advanced manned bomber to replace the B-52 and construction of a greatly expanded nuclear fleet of warships. He also expressed serious reservations about the politically unpopular plan once advocated by McNamara to merge the National Guard and the Army Reserves. Following...
...Resignation. C rations came in handy to ranches isolated by flood- level runoff from the snow, which cut U.S. Highway 66 along much of its Arizona course. A man in Miami, Ariz., was rescued by choppers, but his pet monkey was found frozen to death, hanging by its tail from a tree. Other Navajos like Lily Crookedfinger, 90, and the Tsosie brothers were less fortunate: they died of exposure in the high country. Sheepherder Joe Shaggy, 25, weathered the blast though several of his woolies froze to death...
...least three of them want to get in right away, and the others are giving serious thought to joining. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie flew into Kampala with his pet Chihuahua Lulu to put in his country's bid for membership. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia said that his country wants in because it believes that such cooperation is "a matter of life or death." With a hostile white regime in Rhodesia as a neighbor, Zambia sees its economic future in East Africa. Even Somalia's President Abdinashid AH Shermarke, whose country has recently encouraged rebellious tribes...
...clothing needs within Cambodia itself. Under a procurement system involving the Chinese embassy in Pnompenh, the Communists buy up to 100,000 tons of Cambodian rice a year. Until the Cambodian army cut itself into the lucrative trade recently in order to raise money for Sihanouk's pet welfare programs, it was handled almost exclusively by Cambodia's colony of Chinese merchants...
...course, everybody has his bate noire, his black pet, in the series. Mine is that airline ad: the snack served by an obsequious wench to a young couple, she eyeing ecstatically the cucumber canape, he admiring wistfully the hostess. And, of course, Death in Venice. You see the range...