Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the governor signed the bill into law, with the quiet comment that this was "a victory for the people over a group that had more or less its own way for a long, long time." With that, McCarty had about caught up with Johnston's rabbit. The new law will cost the four Johnston dog-racing tracks $417,625 a year...
...superstition that makes Lloyd Jordan avoid black cats. "I don't like cats anyway," he explains. In fact Lloyd Jordan claims to be entirely free of superstitions. "Even if I wanted to wear a rabbit's foot, my dog woudn't let me," notes the football coach...
...years. Last week, in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, he offered an explanation of why the smiting father's arm is smitten down, and added an assortment of related cases, including the hunter who goes all of a jelly when he sights his gun at a rabbit...
...most remarkable case cited by Dr. Levin involves a hunter and a rabbit: "A rabbit came into view and [the hunter] raised his gun to shoot; but suddenly his arms and neck began to quiver and in his own words, 'everything gave way under me and I squatted like a wet rag.' He had to abandon hunting because [whenever] a rabbit jumped up he would lose muscular tone and fall to the ground...
...array of dug-in ticks can kill a jack rabbit by drinking nearly all of its blood...