Word: duck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a tank...
Silver says he prepares quail, duck, pheasant, turkey and even rabbit for discriminating patrons...
...great industrial consolidations of the Rockefellers and Harrimans a century ago were simpleminded checkers games by comparison to this 3-D chess match. Tracking the corporate cross-purposes and potential conflicts of interest makes the brain hurt. Paramount's Davis, surely a lame duck no matter who wins, wants Sumner Redstone's Viacom to become his proprietor, but both will be millions richer even if Diller and Malone prevail. Because Malone controls a quarter of the stock in Turner Broadcasting, mellowing Ted Turner (he told someone recently he's "a lot less hungry" than certain other moguls) was persuaded last...
...Columbia," (or whoever the opponent of the week is). The humor, I suppose, derives from the provocative fact that the word "ruck" rhymes with the American colloquialism which connotes copulation. Unfortunately, most people have, since elementary school, exhausted the possibilities that this rhyme pattern offers--with words such as duck, truck, luck, puck, muck, and suck, many of which are even commonly used in America...
...plastic bags issued by Lamont Library which say "A Wet Book is a Dead Duck" are intended to make students care for the library's volumes, and, if the books get wet, bring them in for fixing...