Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Know the President." These were some of the congressional problems which confronted Administration Democrats this week as Mr. Truman prepared a message for the lame-duck 81st Congress, due to reconvene on Nov. 27. Mr. Truman showed no signs of backing away from his program. "You know the President," said one White House adviser. "He never retreats...
...Lame Duck Senator Millard Tydings: "I can't explain the defeat; I suppose . . .the national Administration was not popular...
Birdmcm. In Terre Haute, Ind., one Donald Duck enlisted in the U.S. Air Force...
...kind of like the guy at the carnival that sticks his head through the canvas to have baseballs thrown at it. If he's good he can duck the baseballs for quite a while, but the more times he sticks his head through the canvas, the more likely he is to get beaned. How many wars do we have to live through before we get beaned...
...supply a commander. When they did, there was no question that the nominee would be Ike; the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff had obviously settled on him (TIME, Oct. 16) and so had the defense ministers. Would he accept? "I'll not do anything to try to duck the job," he said. "The President knows that I am ... always ready to do what I am called upon to do. That's why they gave some of us old soldiers permanent rank*-so that we could be called back when we were needed...