Word: jackrabbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom the Astros plucked three years ago from California's Oakland City College, was hitting .315 until last week, when a batting-practice liner crunched into his right kneecap, putting him out for three weeks. With Rookie Shortstop Sonny Jackson, 21, a .296 hitter who fields like a jackrabbit and steals bases on the side (24 this year), the Astros have one of the best doubleplay acts in the league...
...brakes to avoid a swerving taxi], say on the order of a billion dollars a year [slow glide toward the light that had gone red], our great financial institutional investors such as the insurance companies, the pension funds and the savings banks must be induced to cooperate [another jackrabbit start toward the next light]." The self-possessed driver was David Rockefeller, 47, one of the world's richest men, grandson of Oil Baron John...