Word: jackrabbited
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...have seen jackrabbit drives in the West, in which a cordon of hunters closes in on the helpless rabbits and drives them into a pen, where they are clubbed or shot. The spectacle at Nanking after the Japanese captured the city was very much the same, with human beings as the victims...
...agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
...vividly enough to prepare Yale for what the real Buckler did last week. Repeatedly swift-footed Buckler took the ball on the run, drew back his arm as if to pass. While the Yale defense scattered. Buckler might streak around end. Or he might pass, while sprinting like a jackrabbit. Seven times his passes plumped into Army hands for total gains of 148 yd. Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried the Army within plunging distance of another. Between times Buckler kicked superbly, once sent a punt sailing and rolling 87 yd. Army's hard-charging line, marvelously...
...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...
When told the oil operators might seek relief in the U. S. courts, Governor Murray exploded: "Just let 'em try to pull that old Federal court injunction stuff on me. It'll be like a jackrabbit trying to tree a wild cat ... Some of these quill suckers-said my action was bad precedent and that if I could do that for oil, it could be done for cotton and wheat. They don't understand that an executive order must invariably follow the law and there's no law to control cotton or wheat production when...