Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public's doghouse, and proved once again that he would be a masterful Secretary of State if all the U.S.'s enemies could be disposed of with a gavel. Yet all through 1951, Acheson's State Department was still caught as tight as Brer Rabbit in Tar Baby. The useless and impossible effort to justify its past mistakes consumed its energies. In this year-long waste of time, Senator Joe McCarthy, the poor man's Torquemada, played Tar Baby...
...overtones of sensual feelings and impressions. If one steps over the first paragraph, which looks almost as though someone accidentally left it lying in the doorway, the first part of the story is relatively easy to negotiate. But the last half jumps from one impression to another with jack-rabbit agility. Both the mood and the concrete impressions suffer thereby, and the story fades out in a disappointing burst of obscurity...
Shades of Peter Rabbit! I never dreamed I'd see my childhood friend, Squirrel Nutkin, making TIME'S [Nov. 5] PEOPLE page. Even Old Brown must be blinking to find himself compared to John Nance Garner and mentioned in the same column with Margaret Truman, Princess Margaret and other royalty...
Horn on the Play. In Panningen, The Netherlands, when Football Player Jan Janssen killed a rabbit which had strayed on to the playing field, cops charged him with hunting without a license...
...actresses who were able to go on playing youthful roles after face lifting, while others of the same age, with unlifted faces, got only middle-aged parts or none at all; a pediatrician who had a port-wine birthmark removed from his face because it scared the kiddies; a rabbit-eared radio announcer who had to have an operation to get a job on television...