Word: groundhogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's groundhog is annoyed...
...spent Groundhog Day quietly, but darted an occasional glance around her cage in search of the proverbial shadow, Poor lighting rendered her vigilance fruitless...
...Groundhog Day is a strictly American slant on the 1457-year-old celebration of Candlemas. A feature-hungry press has perpetuated the colonial fantasy that groundhogs emerge from their winter repose on February 2 to observe the coming of spring...
Association of Groundhog Day with Candlemas stems from the ancient belief, widespread throughout the superstitious Christian world, that a sunny February 2 is a sure forecast of a cold spring. As the canny Scotch put it. "If Candlemas be fair and clear, there'll be two winters in the year...
Holing Up. At Bear Mountain, N.Y., a groundhog named Albert broke zoo for the second time in two weeks, got six feet underground before he was located. The zoo gave up, let him hibernate...