Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Guru." But the public also began to hear of an odd-duck Wallace who, in an awkward, headlong way, took up tennis and boomerang-throwing, who Indian-wrestled with an aide in his office between conferences. Before coming to Washington he had left his grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when...
Fertility Up. And there were the witnesses. Said Merrill Sampson of Lakeville, director of the State Duck Growers' Association: "Brown's master cell upped my egg production 50%. Upped fertility 20%. I thought it was a lot of hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell...
With both hands firmly clenched around a newly fashioned club, President Truman assured the jittery steel industry last week that there was no need to duck-yet. He "did not consider it appropriate" to invoke the drastic powers to control steel which the Republican Congress had unwittingly given him in a sleeper amendment to the draft act (TIME, July 5). Instead, the President asked the Department of Commerce to work out a voluntary allocation program to take care of military needs for steel...
...their own defense, Republicans pointed out that in 1932 a Democratic Congress had ignored 1,727 of Herbert Hoover's 2,903 appointees. But that was in a lame-duck session after Hoover had already been defeated for reelection. With President Truman already hard-pressed to find good men for Government jobs, the Republican decision meant that he would find it even harder to fill interim vacancies for the next eight months...
Melody Time (Disney; RKO Radio) is a crowded 75 minutes of song-illustrated animation involving: 1) skating lovers, tintype style, emulated by rabbits; 2) Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker...