Word: gophering
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...assistant professor of zoology and mammalogist in 1919, he "didn't even know what a mammalogist was. It turned out to be a fancy name for rodent exterminator," says Frederick Lee Hisaw, now 64, "and one of the rodents I was to exterminate was the pocket gopher. But I soon became more interested in live pocket gophers than in dead ones...
...Gopher Prairie, Minn., Sinclair Lewis' culture-starved heroine, Carol Kennicott, yearned to argue art with her energetic, flat-chested friend Vida Sherwin. For 15 minutes they debated: It's art, but is it pretty? Then Carol cried: "I don't care how much we disagree. It's a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops. Let's make Gopher Prairie rock to its foundations: let's have afternoon tea instead of afternoon coffee...
...bosom begins to heave during his sermons, and Humphrey himself gets unseasonably hot under the ecclesiastical collar. However, by the time the audience has experienced the illicit delights of what amounts to a free trial package of sacrilege, the script "does a gopher," as Hollywood writers say. It runs for cash cover...
...Gopher coach Mariucci, whose teams have won two straight Western Intercollegiate Hockey League titles solely with American personel, said, "We at Minnesita don't have any Canadians, but our doors are open. One good Canadian player is worth ten American coaches...
...Gopher enjoyed life in an appendix. For three chapters they stumbled from party to punch, from dance to debut. Pearl Harbor disrupted things; it made the parties wilder and more frequent. And then they all went into the army, all the bright young men. When they came back, some, like Gopher Marsh, had high resolves which vanished quickly, in an alcoholic solvent. Most returned happily to entertain the same old friends and same old ideas. A few, like Gus Taylor, escaped to reality...