Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarks such as, "Is this your lighter that I found under my pillow, or does it belong to Jacques?" While these two sip cognac in a fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough to keep continuity, it adds tart to the essentially sweet story, but it never becomes oppressive...
...also embarked on his first major political foray outside New York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential ambitions. Said a withdrawn, tight-lipped Rocky: "No, but it's tiresome...
Water Gap. Brown has many reasons to duck all-out candidacy and none to proclaim it at this time. In his short time in office, he has pushed the newly Democratic legislature into remarkable action e.g., approval of the $1.8 billion water-resources development program (TIME, June 29), a $61 million income tax boost appropriated to close the budget gap. He has helped abolish California's party-damaging system of primary-ballot cross-filing, has brought stability to the long-fragmented Democratic Party. But his job has just begun: the statewide water-development plan, for example, must still...
...school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond referendum was defeated; but just before the next one in 1957 President Eisenhower spoke twice on television in a post-Sputnik appeal for more science education. That did it. St. Charles kicked in the money. Says Schaerer: "Never has a school district had a more talented and renowned...
Despite all predictions it was, in the parlance of the ring, the President's round on points. And it was a truly amazing performance he put on. Relegated by the experts to the role of a lame duck at the beginning of the year, he was acclaimed for his leadership at the end. Aside from a minor defeat on his second veto of the Pork Barrel Bill, the only setback to his energetic leadership was the Senate's rejection of Admiral Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. Indeed, so successful was his defense of a balanced budget, that several Democrats vied...