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Word: rabbiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at the farm, David bundled up in his new outdoor outfit, added a Davy Crockett hat (with tail) and a .410 shotgun, joined his genial grandfather in the fields for a brief try at rabbit hunting. All the rabbits got clean away, without a shot fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Crowded Holidays | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...finally, on current critical ballyhoo about the South as a source of symbol and meaning: "Tommyrot. You can say Faulkner, but not really. The only really regional writer in the South was the creator of Br'er Rabbit...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Cocktails With Truman Capote | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

Manhattan-born Shari has been aiming at one audience or another since she pulled her first rabbit out of a hat at the age of four. A broken leg in adolescence ended her dream of becoming a professional dancer, so she turned to ventriloquism. A year later, at 18, she had her own TV show, has had one or more ever since. Today her pell-mell schedule leaves her about an hour and a half a day to herself, during which "I look at my husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Charm in the Morning | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Like Brer Rabbit slapping Tar Baby, Goodie found his hand stuck. Knowland expressed "surprise" at Knight's argument, unveiled a five-year-old letter in which Knight lamented the state legislature's failure to pass a right-to-work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Right to Lose | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...bright leaves of New England autumn crackled crisply underfoot as hunters in Maine and Vermont took to the woods and meadows in search of rabbit and pheasant. In Wisconsin and Oregon the hunt was on for grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: DOG DAYS | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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