Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that the major difference between the two tracks was the size of the quadrupeds running--a difference of some 12 hands--and the presence of "jeep," better known as the mechanical rabbit, or "there goes the bun-neee...
...Well, uh, it's just a . . . plain rabbit, yes, rabbit...
...newborn Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16). Ostensibly, the row was over the school's first budget and operating policies. But behind the scenes, Nanyang, set up primarily to win Oriental minds for the West, was an ideological morass, a battleground where the Communists had already opened a rabbit-punch struggle to capture minds for their own cause. In despair and frustration. Dr. Lin, more a scholar than a dynamic educator, capitulated...
...Dorothy Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager beaverability is Florence Rinard of Twenty Questions. Cinemactress June Lockhart...
Private enterprise, says the true Tory, perished the day the government took over the post office, or anyway, when it invented the income tax. As for sport-football vanished when the forward pass came in, and baseball was ruined by the rabbit ball. And the grand old game of golf has never been the same since some dratted tinkerer invented the wedge. To make matters worse, sir, courses are getting so short and simple that tournament scores are outrageous...