Word: rodding
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...long as sorghum hangs heavy, golden-rod gilds the fields and black bass sail fat and complacent on river bottoms, our constitutional and, let us hope, indigenous heritage of godliness should be able to circumvent Cicada McCarthys, Cicero citizens and their contemporaries...
...heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It took two hours a day to apply his tricky makeup, and in every scene he was dependent, not only on his own art, but on a lackey who perched above him with a fishing rod and manipulated his tail...
People with an unsatisfied will-to-believe have been getting solace from Novelist Kenneth Roberts' Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod. It tells with plenty of "evidence" how a good old state of Maine character, Henry Gross, finds "veins of water" by means of his good old divining rod.† In the latest issue of Harper's magazine, which likes to publicize pseudo-scientific fancies (e.g., Eric Larrabee's piece on the passing planets), and also to knock them down, waterworks Engineer Thomas M. Riddick gives an engineer's explanation of water dowsing...
...sport of hooking them takes a regal bankroll. Fishing leases cost up to $25,000 a year for the exclusive Restigouche clubs, where rosters are studded with names like Du Pont, Vanderbilt and Whitney. Even in the limited government waters, the fee is $40 a rod per day, and only 70 permits are issued each year...
When the light is reasonably bright, the eye sees by means of millions of microscopic "cones" of the retina. As the light dims, the cones go out of action. Tiny "rods," which are much more sensitive, take over their duties. Only one quantum* of light is needed to make a rod tell the brain that it is seeing something...