Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Virginia, Senator Chapman Revercomb is probably closer to being a lame duck than any extant Republican. Although Dewey & Co. will be saddened to see Revercomb depart, they will undoubtedly be a bit relieved. Revercomb is roughly two miles to the right of present party leadership, and his public utterances often make even John Bricker look a little pink. Neely, his Democratic opponent, has strong labor support, including a thunderous blessing from John L. Lewis...
...Even a Smile. Dr. Freeman, though no debunker, is too conscientious a historian to duck any ugliness that must out. Young Washington is proof enough of that. He himself is aware that the first two volumes add few cubits to George Washington's stature. In the Virginia of Washington's day, writes Dr. Freeman, "One verb told the story . . . grab, grab, grab." Washington's father and grandfather had been successful grabbers in a relatively small way. Father Augustine (he was called Gus) could afford to send two of his sons to school in England, though George...
...Valpey has done an astonishing job. A devotee of punch, rather than duck, he has fashioned a football team that gulps up yardage like every guy was promised a now suit of clothes for a 30-yard run," Nason went on, somewhat more enthusiastically than grammatically...
...think that makes any difference," said Carey. "When someone walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, he's a duck...
...road over the Tuscarora Mountains to Chambersburg and the British military base at Carlisle; a dozen scenes of frontier crowds praying and dancing and singing; a spate of Irish and Scotch dialects; a history of the settlements, Indian wars and politics of western Pennsylvania; a long, rapturous recipe for duck soup...