Word: duck
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...island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east from Switzerland on March 1, raced across...
Lewinsky: I kind of think of a sort of cuckoo clock and--I don't know why this image [comes to mind]--a sort of a duck that comes down at 12 noon whose head spins around and sticks its tongue in and out and flails its arms...
...This problem is easily overcome. Install a checker at the door-if you inspect people's bags and jackets, hardly any food or drink will escape into the stacks. Besides, people are sneaking food and drink into the library as it is. A wet book is not a dead duck, but an undercaffeinated student is a miserable thing...
Years ago, I put on the record what I had learned about blue jeans at Southwest High School, in Kansas City, Mo.: "Anybody who wears jeans that are not Levi or Lee is a nerd, a creep, a wonk, and walks like a duck." What binds Weyrich and me together, I realized, is that we believe in an absolute standard of behavior, what used to be called the eternal verities; we deplore what he would probably call relativist morals and I would call a lot of people being willing to go around dressed like dorks...
...twice, Clinton will spend more time highlighting what he has already done than he will trying much that is new. His willingness to use some of the surplus to pay down the debt speaks to a kind of long-term focus that is the luxury of a lame-duck President. The plan for the next two years seems to be, Trumpet the past; give Gore the future...