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...water, boats with such family names as Comet, Lightning, Star, Thistle, Raven, Rebel, Weasel and Wood Pussy were chasing each other, waiting for vagrant puffs of breeze, or just lazing along. Sometimes, in a strong puff, one or more blew over; but after thrashing about in the water for a while their crews climbed in again, bailed, and sailed on or waited for a tow. In short, as the saucer man would have been fully justified in reporting to his interstellar G2, the Americans have found a big new way of getting sunburned, soaked to the skin and happily exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Birdmen, known affectionately as The Flock, started off their dreary afternoon by dropping the annual baseball game, 23 to 2. Ace Crimson moundsman Mickey "The Kid" Maccoby, known affectionately to his teammates as "the Weasel," retired the entire Poonie aggregation on one pitch, his famous "blackball." Explaining his use of this dreaded weapon, Maccoby said, "It matters not if you won or lost, but who you let play in your game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimeds Beat Updike Therd Poonies Made to Eat Ibis | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Herbert strains the budding romance by planting dead cats on the widower's doorstep with tags addressed to "Old Runt" and "Old Weasel." When such shenanigans pall, Herbert has his daughter read to him about Nazi atrocities at Belsen. "Lunatics are all about us," he warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harmless Herbert | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

With an air of "we'll see about this," McCarthy asked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for an appointment. Dulles invited McCarthy over to lunch. For 75 minutes, Lawyer-Diplomat Dulles and Lawyer-Senator McCarthy ate and talked. Then they issued a weasel-worded joint communiqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Infringement | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...explorers from Peabody made their way over the tundra in the most "modern" of vehicles--the Weasel, an amphibious auto with tracks, ribs, and pontoons to keep it above water and to prevent it from sinking into the tundra. The group worked in continual daylight from July 1 to September 1, when the sun is constantly above the horizon...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Peabody Alaska Expedition Finds Village Site And 'John Q. Adams', But No Original American | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

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