Word: jackrabbit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead run. Once in motion, he wobbles along, elbows flying, hips swaying, shoulders rocking-creating the illusion that he will fly to pieces with every stride. But once he gains momentum, his shoulders come to order and his feet skim along like flying fish. He is not only jackrabbit fast, but about one thought and two steps ahead of every base-runner in the business. He beats out bunts, stretches singles into doubles. Once Jackie made second on a base-on-balls; he saw that the catcher had lost the ball, so he just kept on going...
...before he went to Trenton, probably not one U.S. voter in ten knew much more about him than that he had kicked up some kind of a row on the Princeton campus. William Randolph Hearst scorned him as "the Professor . . . perched on his little hillock of expediency ... a perfect jackrabbit of politics . . . ears erect and nostrils distended . . . ready to run and double in any direction...
Uncle Jimbilly was Nannie's husband and Grandmother's odd-job man. He liked to carve miniature tombstones in wood, but he got angry when asked to inscribe "Safe in Heaven" over the tomb of the children's pet jackrabbit. Children goggled and thrilled when Uncle Jimbilly casually remarked that he would cut off their ears, skin them alive and nail their skins to the barn door...
...Town built her a $100,000 house with $50 doorknobs. She added an "e" to her name. Next year Old Man Towne raised dollar cotton. Mrs. Towne, pallid Loraine and nympholeptic little Elaine went to Europe. Van, demoniacally drunk, scorched around the State in an Apperson Jackrabbit with a siren on it, leaving terror, curses and shaken fists in his wake. Old Man Towne borrowed $500,000 against the open draft notes signed in his name in Van's handwriting, and against the importunate cables from abroad. One day he came back from Memphis with a suitcase and called...
Rear Admiral Emory Land further volunteered that 26 idle Axis tankers in Latin American ports were available and could also beat the shortage. All this cheery talk just befuddled the public, long warned of gasless Sundays, and threatened with arrest for smoky exhausts or jackrabbit starts. But it did not befuddle Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes or his deputy, Ralph K. Davies, vice president of Standard Oil of California. It just infuriated them, the more so because Pelley is a super-optimist from way back. From the Maritime Commission's own report, Davies promised to show that only...