Word: duck
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...added that he regarded many of his recent speeches as "quacks from a lame duck...
...time he raises his arms in victory at the convention in San Francisco, he will have taken so many blows from his opponents he will be punch-drunk. Says Iowa Democratic Committee Chairman David Nagle: "If Hart sweeps the rest, Mondale's going to be a badly wounded duck trying to fly home...
Without benefit of egg, he was born 50 years ago this week in a movie called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather. To celebrate the birthday, Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., has planned a summer-long salute to the irascible star, featuring 50, yes sir 50, real live ducks that will waddle along with Donald through the Magic Kingdom on at least three outings during the next month. Of course, it takes an odd duck to be fooled by a fellow in a funny suit. So the Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins...
While Hughes usually succeeds in his comic effect, there are moments that amount to nothing more than bad taste. Examples include a young woman with a back brace who is constantly tripping or drenching her face in water fountains, and the Asian exchange student whose name--Long Duck Dong--alone should demonstrate the racist stereotyping of his character. Equally cardboard is Jake's beautiful but shallow girlfriend, who tells Jake: "I fantasize that I'm your wife and we're like the richest, most popular adults in town...
...seems the place to be if you're a plastic penguin--or chicken, or duck, for that matter--is a lawn. Den Featherstone of Union Products, Inc., in Leominster, which made the penguins, said yesterday that large orders of birds are common...