Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson or a Rabbit. Like most outstanding Civil War leaders, Jackson was blooded in the Mexican War. A West Pointer ('46, with budding Union General George Brinton McClellan and the Confederacy's George Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable...
...Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters...
...Jack-Rabbit Start. Free piston engines are still full of bugs, but their seemingly indirect way of generating power has its points. Since the combustion gases start their work cycle at extremely high pressure and temperature, the thermal efficiency of the engine (the amount of mechanical energy that it gets out of the fuel) can be very good. It has no flywheel, crankshaft or connecting rods. It has many valves to shunt air through the various chambers, but they are all self-operating, and none are exposed to high temperature. The engine can be made to run on almost...
...patronizing vulgarity with which Capra jazzed up the lesson threw a blight on scientific footage that, in itself, was as good as anything of its kind ever televised. Especially effective in color, these sequences showed a pounding human heart, the hearts of a turtle, a rabbit and a bird, and the passage of blood, a corpuscle at a time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries...
...Commerce rodeo, and the talk of the Junior C. of C. was the enterprise of Bright Young Man Lee Ackerman and his aide, Chuck Mueller, who are so convinced of the future growth of Phoenix that they are buying and selling nearby desert acreage that only a jack rabbit could call home...