Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duck Ellis Pitched for three different teams: the Yankees. A's, and Rangers: Because his tenure on these clubs coincided with a series of managerial firings. Ellis played for no less than seven managers in 1977. One point for the first four you can identify, and two points for each of the other three...
...Marx's companion for the last six years of his life. Whatever their life was like together, the battle being waged in Santa Monica, Calif., between Fleming and the bank that was named as Marx's executor has had all the decorum of the courtroom scene in Duck Soup. In the seven-week case, which goes to the jury this week, the Bank of America accused her of gulling the comedian out of $428,000 before he died in 1977 at the age of 86. After outbursts in court, Fleming was examined by a psychiatrist, who found...
Well, Dad, I guess you're going to be a lameduck in Utah and a sitting duck in California," quipped Lisa Gardner, 16, when she heard about her father's appointment last week. On July 1, after a decade as the University of Utah's popular president, David Pierpont Gardner, 49, takes on what is probably the nation's most challenging job in education. He will become the 15th president of the nine-campus, 139,176-student University of California, the finest public university system in the U.S., and one, as Gardner says, "where...
...smiles eagerly at the expression "you're beating a dead horse." Agent Orange (Nancy Frantz) bursts out of a frigid, schoolteacher's exterior in the sultry song Mean Streak. Dean Dean (Phil Kraft), the absent-minded administrator, sits naked in a kiddie pool and sings to his rubber duck about the comparative rigors...
...targets for ground fire. In the late '60s, the Army tried to make the Cheyenne maneuverable yet adequately armored, in the process boosting the cost to $7 million, more than that of a sophisticated fighter jet at the time. But no amount of money could turn a sitting duck into a soaring eagle. So the Cheyenne program was dropped in favor of the AH-64 Apache helicopter. The cost overruns on that project have forced up its price from $9 million to $17 million per chopper (more than an F-16 fighter) and even the Army balked at paying...