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Down Wind. In Kosciusko, Miss., charged with operating a still, Rudolf Slater swore he never would have been caught except that his dog's run-in with a skunk had left it unable to smell approaching revenuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Yale weekend--appear in a crude sort of stream of consciousness which is vague enough now and will not mean anything a few years hence. For example, an item, presumably about the Conservative League, starts: "Some plots have a way of thickening--even thick plots. . . a boy and a skunk, and I can't trust my roommate anymore." Doubtless, the editors who compiled the review had interesting thoughts, but it seems unfortunate that no one put them into prose...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: 318 | 6/4/1954 | See Source »

...many skunks hev you ed'tors act'ally ketch'd? Au' all them classy letter-writers a-hollerin' their heads off? How many of 'em are honest-to-goodness skunk hunters? It's one thing to say ya hate skunks--altogether another matter when they's hunt'd. 'Course they do, dadgum it! They don't like it. Truly yours, The Old Minuteman (As reported by Kenneth D. Robertson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...that the Pet Skunk Faction has taken over the proposed Conservative League, it apparently will be some time before a student organization represents the conservative point of view in the University. For the faction that wishes the League to be a forum for intellectual debate has withdrawn, leaving the Skunk element dedicated, to hear them talk, to fighting "Communism" by any means, including spying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pole-Cat Menace | 3/16/1954 | See Source »

...clarification will not come. At the same time, the rabid outcry made Sunday by an anonymous liberal group has lent the appearance of low comedy to the whole situation. But perhaps derision is the best of all possible solutions. The contemptuous laughter of the community may keep the Pet Skunk Faction from doing the harm of which it is capable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pole-Cat Menace | 3/16/1954 | See Source »

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