Word: hare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine called ENIAC. But there was fear that this electric brain would be too slow. Stan Ulam, a mathematician, with one helper, "undertook to execute the same job by straightforward hand computation. The next few months saw an amazing competition between the tortoise and the (electronic) hare." Ulam's "results were available even before the lengthy instructions to the machines had been completed . . . In a real emergency the mathematician still wins-if he is really good...
...decision could be locked in the breast of one man, e.g., in planning his Valley campaign, Stonewall Jackson withheld nearly all information even from his top subordinate, Major General Richard S. Ewell, who was heard to complain, "I tell you, sir, he's as crazy as a March hare. He has gone away; I don't know where." Today Jackson would have to parcel out his secret among hundreds of helpers, most of them unknown to him, and some of them untested by their careers on the points of loyalty and discretion...
...roasted; perfumed with the condiments and the spices, completely permeated by the various flavors, it has been transfused into a strange and exquisite venison. Roast and serve with the usual venison sauce, to which has been added just before serving 2 tablespoons of the blood of a hare...
...with horror. Popes and emperors have forbidden it. Such great artist-anatomists as Da Vinci and Vesalius had to cut through layers of superstition and prejudice before they could use the dead to reveal the secrets of life. Ghouls such as Britain's famed Body-snatchers Burke and Hare committed murder to supply the anatomists' demand, and added the word "burking" to the language. Even today, in some Southern states, mothers threaten naughty children with "the night doctor will get you"-a reference to the ante-bellum breed of burkers...
...Brunswick, where he was meditating while fishing, Naturalist Thornton (Old Mother West Wind stories) Burgess, 80, whose bedtime stories are in sum a 44-year chase of Peter Rabbit, who always manages to evade Reddy Fox by a hare's breadth, confided that Peter will never be caught unless it's over Burgess' dead body. "There will never be a tragedy in the Burgess bedtime stories," said he feelingly, with a deep sense of his mission. "Tragedy comes into a child's life soon enough...