Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income tax or Snyder's 75% excess profits levy. But Chairman Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 87-year-old North Carolina Democrat, refused to listen to any alternatives, insisted that Congress had given him a "mandate" to report out only an excess profits tax in time for the lame duck session...
...central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people live dull, stagnant lives in little duck ponds while secretly hoping for "miracle, excitement and sensation...
Local squirrels are aflutter and the pigeons are going equirrelly under a combined land-air attack. Behind the disturbance are a large white cat and a duck hawk that uses the Mem Hall clock tower for a landing field...
...watchers were unavailable for comment last night, but the furred marauder has taken a considerable toll. Unlike the duck hawk, which dives upon its prey at speeds approaching 200 miles per hour, the cat relies on stealth. This leaves time for crowds to gather, and nature's drama is sometimes played before large crowds of class-goers...
...Lame Duck Senator Claude Pepper: Has to be interpreted as a gain for the conservative and isolationist forces in the country...