Word: jerboa
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...like to think of Frank as a Jerboa, he's always quick to the ball and gets in and out of the corners real fast," Polsky says. "In one match I saw him dive for the ball 13 times, only to exit the court with bloody knees. He's always functioned marvelously as a role model...
...Marianne Moore is offering her small but fervent public a collected view of her poetic garden. Nothing quite like it has ever been seen before. Through its pleasant paths wander such birds and beasts as the jerboa, the Malay dragon, the pangolin and the plumet basilisk. In one poem she presents "the frilled lizard, the kind with no legs, and the three-horned chameleon . . . that take to flight if you do not." But while the surface of these delicate verses concerns animals, a second look shows that they are about human beings, too-and about such virtues as orderliness, courage...
...magazine "Dial" and then said something about how gratified he was to see so many people present and that he was certain Miss Moore's announced appearance had been responsible for "our recent inhabitant of the Yard, the owl." He said he only regretted that it wasn't a jerboa...
...Jerboa or jumping rodents of Mongolia were reported last week to have become carriers of the Black Plague and to be spreading it with appalling mortality among dwellers on the steppes near Irkutsk...
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