Word: hare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of the late Walter Ben Hare of the Phoenix, Ariz. Weather Bureau...
...belt marks him as "Prince of Cloone," the tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest at the church of Mary Without Stain...
...fourth time Eleanor Roosevelt headed the annual Book of Knowledge list of the world's brainiest women. On the list for the third time: Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Anatomist Dr. Florence Reno Sabin, New York Times Foreign Correspondent & Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine Lenroot, Physicist Lise Meitner, Princess Elizabeth, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, Actress Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday, Mrs. Ogden Reid, publisher...
...goes, hound after hare, with the jaws of fate snapping just too late at least every other chapter, until the plague of 1630 almost takes them all. Beneath all this activity, the conventional apparatus of the romantic novel, lies the real action of Manzoni's story: the inner feeling of his people. And in this Manzoni shows himself a psychologist to stand firmly with the finest novelists of his century...
...entire city. At least 25 people were injured stumbling through its gloom; King George VI had to cancel a trip to the theater-his first evening out since his operation three months ago; greyhound racing at the White City was abandoned because dogs couldn't see the hare; and a mallard duck flying blind over central London slammed into Victoria Station and crash-landed on No. 6 platform...