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Only the week before, the Navy had babied its slender satellite-laden Vanguard.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems that Colonel Fitz-James, who had been colonel of the regiment for some time, had babied the bandsmen, one and all, until they had quite forgotten the fact of their being enlisted men.

From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack