Word: duck
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...situation was in hand. We crawled to a rear door, jumped into the void and landed on a chute." Another passenger, traveling with his family, saw a mobile ramp full of gendarmes pass his window and knew an attack was imminent. "I told my wife and children to duck down," he recounts. "There were explosions, gunfire, but we didn't see anything. That's all. I had the impression that it only lasted a quarter of a second." "There was gunfire in every direction," says an Algerian mechanic. "I crawled to the airport building and I looked around...
Friday Night at Hodges' Cafe, written and illustrated by Tim Egan (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95), is just what a funny book for little kids ought to be: silly. Hodges, an elephant, runs a cafe that would be fairly normal, except that his crazy pet duck causes a lot of trouble. Things get out of control when three tough tigers show up (ignoring the no tigers sign) and decide that roast duck would be just dandy. Hodges whaps the biggest tiger with a squishy souffle, and the duck dives into a large raspberry tart to hide. Alas, his back end sticks...
...accepted the analysis of Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, who believes that trying to freeze inflation adjustments in 1985 so angered the elderly lobby that it cost Republicans control of the Senate in 1986. In an interview with TIME, Kerrey would say only that if Gingrich is willing to duck Social Security's problems because they are 25 years away, "don't give any speeches saying how concerned you are about your children and grandchildren." He added that Gingrich, "like many Democrats, calculates that he can't tell people the truth about Social Security...
Winter's coming took on a symbolic chill for congressional Democrats as they eulogized 40 years of majority rule during a last lame-duck session, convened for GATT. Preparations for the bleak unknown began with Democratic House leadership elections. Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri briefly climbed out of his hospital bed to secure the nod as minority leader before returning for a gallbladder operation; he will be joined by newly elected minority whip David Bonior of Michigan and California's Vic Fazio, now the House Democratic caucus chairman. In the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted...
Hours before President Clinton was to address the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- a group he helped found, once led and used as a springboard to the White House -- the group's current chairman, lame-duck Oklahoma Rep. Dave McCurdy, hammered Clinton for apparently drifting leftward. "While Bill Clinton has the mind of a new Democrat, he retains the heart of an old Democrat," McCurdy told compatriots. "The result is an administration that has pursued elements of a moderate and liberal agenda at the same time, to the great confusion of the American people." (McCurdy, who got drubbed in a Senate...