Word: piggyback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experiments with chimpanzees and the even more primitive cebus monkey proved that these animals can understand symbols representing food, water or piggyback rides. Therefore they have the basic tools for rudimentary thinking...
Elsewhere in Texas, John Nance Garner unbuckled his belt and took it easy by playing piggyback with great-grandson John Garner Curry, 2½ (see cut). The ex-Vice President was looking no farther ahead than his 70th birthday, next fortnight...
...professional heavyweight finalists were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...
...soldiers with full packs poured out of the conning tower and tried frantically to unleash life rafts. Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes. And once again-said the skipper: "This time we climbed clear over her top and rode her piggyback." They got off by giving the engines full astern...
Sally Rand rode piggyback into Los Angeles' marriage license bureau aboard groom-to-be Thurkel Greenough, rodeo-boy. Both were promptly served with summonses in the ex-Mrs. Greenough's suit for $100-a-month maintenance...