Word: duck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked for suggestions about what I should do during my semester in Moscow. Rather than giving me the usual guidebook trash about the Kremlin and the Tretyakov Gallery, he instead told me, in the imperative tone of a Russian speaking English, "You will go to the Hungry Duck Bar, you will drink and meet girls, you will dance on the bar, you will have a good time...
This lawyer was not the only person I met in America who knew about this strange watering hole. College kids, desperate middle-aged men, and The New York Times all practically commanded me to check out the Duck. "That's where I would have spent all my time if I hadn't been engaged," Keith Gessen '98 told me of his time in Moscow...
...Clinton won in 1996. But because his campaign largely focused on small ideas like V-chips and school uniforms, once re-elected, he lacked direction. Further, he seemed increasingly listless--more interested in his golf game than governing. This posed a huge problem for congressional Democrats. As a lame duck, Clinton could afford to coast through the next four year on automatic pilot. They couldn't. Democrats in Congress had become so reliant on Clinton that without his direction they risked heading into the '98 election empty-handed and empty-headed. The Democrats had gotten into bed with Clinton (metaphorically...
...tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...
Some scenes reverberated in the memories of those who had been attacked. White motorists could only jam down their accelerators, duck their heads and try to speed away from the fusillade of bricks, bottles and bullets. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came...