Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were federal employees. In the basement of their home there, Ullmann kept elaborate photographic equipment. Given a Treasury job by Harry D. White, Ullmann later became an Army Air Forces major. Miss Bentley said Ullmann took and photographed war plans from the Pentagon. Ullmann used the Fifth Amendment to duck questions...
Eating for Two. Then came long and anxious waiting while the presumed young platypuses passed through the nursing stage. Penelope kept her own council, but she seemed to be eating for two or more. Huge quantities of worms and larvae disappeared into her duck bill. Her offspring were presumably demanding more and more milk. According to the schedule worked out in Australia, they should come into the outside world after 17 weeks...
Denmark, with only 150 planes in its tiny royal air force, is a sitting duck for Soviet bombers unless it 1) doubles its own strength, or 2) allows its allies to station NATO planes on Danish air bases. For making this challenging statement last week, Lieut. General Christian Forslev, commander of the Danish air force, got a public reprimand from Social Democrat Defense Minister Rasmus Hansen. The Danish government, though a member of NATO, does not want any allied troops on Danish soil...
...Allan Poe's chilling short story, powerfully narrated in a voice just this side of frenzy by Actor James Mason, the film is one of the first attempts to use the animated cartoon to tell a psychological horror tale. Other cartoon shorts, such as Disney's Donald Duck, Metro's Tom & Jerry, and particularly U.P.A.'s own Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, have accustomed moviegoers to a skillful distortion of reality and a triumph of line over mass that is characteristic of much contemporary art. The Tell Tale Heart goes far beyond such experimentation. Moviegoers...
...majority leader. The two shook hands, smiled and chatted. Then Truman was ushered to the rear-row seat he occupied for ten years as a Senator. He made a little speech, remarked that he always liked the seat, because it was so close to the door and he could duck out when the going got hot. After his speech, Truman shook hands all around and moved ahead on his visitors' schedule. When a Washington Star cartoon showed him standing outside the White House fence with camera in hand, Tourist Truman said: "Well, I'd rather...