Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn Dodgers picked the same afternoon to put on a similar performance with the Milwaukee Braves. Already touched for two home runs, Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale faced Batter Johnny Logan and threw as if discretion demanded a duster. But Shortstop Johnny failed to duck. Drysdale's high hard one hit him in the back. Once more, one word led to another and Shortstop Logan steamed toward the pitcher's mound. Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges started for Logan, Milwaukee Coach Johnny Riddle started for Hodges, and the fight was on. By American League standards the affair...
...SURPRISE OF CREMONA, by Edith Templeton (295 pp.; Harper; $3.50), combines good sense with a special sensibility in a tour of six Italian cities. British Author Templeton's manner is direct and disconcerting, and it will take an agile reader to duck her dicta. Samples...
French scientists have not yet agreed about the validity of duck metamorphosis. To clinch the proof, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy are injecting 16 more ducklings with DNA. Their Blanche-neige ducks laid 27 eggs, which have now hatched. When they grow up, the world will learn whether DNA-induced changes can be transmitted to the second generation...
...becomes notorious in all England. John's parents-his father is a vicar- hope that the scandal will vanish if they ignore it. He is sent to a different school. His name is changed. But to those who know, and those who do not, he is a queer duck. To John himself, life seems as opaque and resistant as if he were living on the ocean floor...
...heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint sprayer, was a sitting duck for Wallace's speechifying, loaded questions. He managed to emit a few typical noises; e.g., the Bible teaches segregation (though he could not quote a supporting text). But the K.K.K., long discredited in the South itself, is not a real issue. Segregation is, and the case for it-such...