Word: squirreled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives with his wife, daughter of a Swedish immigrant family, and his doctor son Alvin Julius, in a narrow six-room house, cluttered with books and papers. From his house Dr. Carlson can see five grey squirrels who frisk in the back yard and even that stimulates his scientific mind. Last spring in Science he noted that a pregnant squirrel dug up old bones, gnawed them constantly. He suggested that someone experiment with squirrels' craving for bones and their physical need for calcium and phosphorus during pregnancy...
...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...
Forward of the squirrel cage was a lounge car for the "boll weevils" (local politicos); two diners (which became traveling nightclubs after the last speech of the day); a press lounge; car after car of reporters, cameramen, assorted camp followers. One of the most popular inhabitants of the train was Porter Foley, who could get there fustest with the mostest drinks. In one week he drew $40 in tips...
Senatorial Squirrel Hunter...
...Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, quoted in TIME, Sept. 2, as speaking against conscription ("the squirrel hunters of North Carolina and Kentucky can keep Hitler or anyone else off until the Marines arrive and the situation is well in hand") any relation to a member of Congress of the same name who was held up on the auto road between Mexico [City] and Taxco a few years ago? ... If he is the type of squirrel hunter they have in North Carolina, for God's sake give us conscription quick in the States...