Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often as dogs appear, and it is quite often, they never convey meaning so effectively as when balanced by rabbits. Normally, rabbits are meek, small, soft and vegetarian, considered harmless by most (Australians to the contrary), and virtually unknown in literature. They have large ears which stick up--a help in finding a rabbit in a crowd--and small, happy tails. Through no fault of their own they bear the standard of sexual fertility--an aspect of prime importance in determining their role as symbol...
Thurber had this to say about "the enormous rabbit" in his Race of Life: "It can be an uncrossed bridge which seems at first glance to have burned behind somebody, or it can be chickens counted too soon, or a ringing phone, or a thought in the night, or a faint hissing sound." It can be all these things, and indeed is; but it is much more...
...home stand last week, Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...
...lifted. To find out, the ministry called on Britain's atomic research station at Harwell. The scientists put 24 grams of sodium carbonate in a reactor and exposed it to neutrons until it became fiercely radioactive. They took it to Stonehenge by truck, put it in a rabbit-size burrow under the great stone and left it there for 36 hours while its gamma rays felt for cracks. If the cracks were really serious, they would show on photographic films placed on top of the stone...
...nevah did ... Go fishin', boy." And at his daughter he roars, "Wheah's mah crop? Whut follahs me?" When her elegant young man dawdles on the way to the altar, Welles tries to hog-tie her up with Ben Quick. "Ah am no tremblin' little rabbit full of smolderin' unsatisfah'd desires," screams Actress Woodward when Quick puts up his proposition. "[Sex] is not enough . . . not nearly enough!" But Quick has an answer for that: "The world belongs to the meat eaters, Miss, and if you've got to take it raw, take...