Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgent message flew last week from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House, out of which Queen Elizabeth's family had just moved. "The Duke of Cornwall is crying," it ran. "He cannot find his rabbit." Within moments, the white angora, overlooked in the moving, was rushed to the palace by limousine, and the most pressing problem in three-year-old Prince Charles' life was solved...
...elder relatives were not so fortunate. By tradition, the heir apparent to Britain's throne has first claim on the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall (an estimated $300,000 yearly) for his own uses, so young Charles could afford to cuddle his rabbit without worrying where his next shilling comes from. The rest of the royal family, even though the crown nominally owns huge chunks of revenue-bearing real estate, must still depend on parliamentary generosity for their livelihoods.* The royal wage scale, known as the Civil List, is drawn up within, the first six months of each...
...universally. The argument that Templer-type combat is too reminiscent of Communist tactics is both specious and suicidal. In hand-to-hand street fighting, no man ever won by appealing to the spectators that he was being fouled. The victor must concentrate on winning, and if it takes a rabbit-punch or kidney blow-he uses it, and quickly...
...Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
...R.A.F. Coastal Command, with its old-fashioned equipment, is "likely to be less effective" than it was in the last war. In one of Winston Churchill's favorite phrases, Britain must present the hard back of a hedgehog, not the soft paunch of a rabbit, to any enemy...