Word: circusing
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...mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...takes an athletic and hardy constitution to get the most out of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Like a three ring circus, there is so much to do, both planned and spontaneous, that a dead run pace is necessary to keep up with slightly over had of the attractions...
...Herblock," Dowling gently spoofs with fine-line ink strokes and light caricature. A lifelong Republican. Cartoonist Dowling, who is syndicated in more than 100 papers, is guilty of one big heresy. "I really miss Harry Truman," says he. "When he was President, there was a three-ring circus in Washington." Dowling's heresy is understandable. Like all good cartoonists, whatever their political coloration, he is better off in opposition to the party in power. "The Republican Administration simply does not provide me with enough good cartoon material. There aren't enough villains...
...Hartleys have a crib ready and are awaiting the day when the hospital releases the baby (or babies). And they have refused an offer from a circus...
Refugees from Communist lands have slipped through the Iron Curtain in all manner of vehicles-in airplanes, in armored cars, even in circus wagons. Last week came word of an entire family from Red Czechoslovakia arriving in the U.S. zone of Austria buried deep within a load of lumber. The buried treasure included a baker from Susice, his son, his daughter-in-law and his two small grandchildren, aged two and four...