Word: rabbiters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure have the sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed his A's in green-and-gold uniforms ("Kelly green and Finley gold," explained one player), installed a flock of green-andgold-blanketed sheep on a grassy slope behind the rightfield fence, passed out free...
While the doctors worked, Jackie waited. The look in her eyes, said a young medical student who saw her, "was like an animal that had been trapped, like a little rabbit-brave, but fear was in the eyes...
...outnumbered police, who helplessly shrilled on their whistles trying to maintain order. Women fainted, and were laid out on tombs. (One was carted off to a hospital in the funeral hearse.) And amidst the tumult, the body of Edith Piaf, along with her cherished good luck charms, a stuffed rabbit, squirrel and lion, was lowered into its grave. It was 6 p.m. before the last of the mourners departed, leaving behind on her grave notes, poems, pictures of her favorite saint (Theresa), a sailor's beret and a French Foreign Legionnaire's epaulet...
...Fifteen rabbits made it safely on a 500-mile Jeep trip from Rio to Barra, Bahia, with two corpsmen last month. The volunteers will do some demonstration rabbit-raising, hoping to move on to rabbit cooperative from there. A Peace Corps couple a Anglical, Bahia have a veritable "two-year plan": illiteracy programs, ceramics industry, youth clubs, a library, a vegetable garden, a health education class, model furniture, privies, water filters, and small dams. The couple, and most of the "new wave," call themselves "community developers...
When Paper Talks. Compiling an Indian language requires the teacher to be taught by his pupils. If he is lucky, a field worker will find at least one member of the tribe with a smattering of Spanish or Portuguese. The institute man then points to a hut, tree, rabbit, or other familiar object and asks the Indian the word for it. As he learns the Indian dialect, the linguist records the sounds on tape. Then, using basic phonetic symbols, he constructs an alphabet for the language. The process can be exasperating. One tribe of suspicious Bolivian Indians refused to cooperate...