Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee chairmen. The point, therefore, is an altogether technical one. But the plain fact is that, for example, bills for the benefit of veterans did bear my name as author ... I was the original author of the legislation that established "Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" . . . The so-called "rabbit bill" was of benefit, it is true, only to a comparatively few small farmers. But to them it was important...
...American ventriloquist who, while touring Europe, becomes the unwitting carrier of a set of horrendously important atomic blueprints. Since not only the original owners of these plans (Our Side), but also two competing sets of Middle European badmen are after the documents, Kaye soon assumes the position of the rabbit in a greyhound race. The epic chases and subtrefuges which result, however, have their edges dulled by limp globs of plot which necessarily precede and follow each comedy sequence...
...condition of the student morale and morals in the New York public schools is little more than parents today deserve. The strip-film projector is no substitute for mother love, the basketball game for rabbit-hunting with Dad. The sooner parents return to the fundamental philosophy of home as the center of family life, the 'better off the kids will be ... Some people acclaim TV as the savior of the family at home. This still avoids the main issue: love and affection for one another...
...housewife hunched over her electric stove, the burden of taxes weighing heavily on her shoulders. Up from behind a paper-littered desk rose Colorado's Republican Senator Eugene Millikin to trade political insults. (Douglas chided the G.O.P. for a recent Government pamphlet on Ways to Cook Rabbit. Millikin recalled a Democratic treatise on the love life of a watermelon.) Then Gene Millikin stumped to the rear of the chamber, puffed on a cigarette, and licked his lips in anticipation of a good fight. He watched Douglas for five minutes, then stumped out his smoke and moved painfully (he suffers...
...Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise and the inadvertent complicity of the husband. Czarist censors banned this story as immoral, which drove Chekhov to retort: "I have formed ... a Society for the Promotion of Cuckoldry, [and] have been elected president...