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Word: ducked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suave salesmen will describe to her the merits of an English shooting stick. They will talk up the all-purpose economy of a hand-carved duck decoy which, used for hunting in season, doubles as a door stop in winter, spring, and summer. On their shelves also is a cellophane-wrapped circular bread board, strapped to which are a bottle of sherry decorated with a bunch of grapes, a wedge of cheese, and a loaf of crusty bread...

Author: By Joan Mopartlin, | Title: Importance of Other Sex Clouds Yuletide Spirit | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

R.S.V.P. In New Orleans, Duck-Calling Champion Clement Estain took his gun and his quack out hunting on the second day of the season, quacked, and got shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even if the opposition is swimming a dophlogisticated duck. Neither man is a kind of performer who would be satisfied with three points even if he know five were in the team pocket already...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

Four Flyways. One of the warmest Indian summers in Canada's history had kept the ducks at the sloughs and potholes of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where they breed and spend the summer. It takes a freeze to chase them south. Last week, a few weeks behind schedule, the mallards, redheads and green-winged teal began to go. They spread out over four major routes. The smallest contingent, about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fine Weather for Ducks | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...California, with 131,009 duck hunters, leads all other states, followed by Minnesota (130,757) and Texas (115,008). † Estimated by a sportsmen's group, Ducks Un limited, after studying post-nesting season reports from farmers, trappers and sportsmen in Canada's great duck-breeding area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fine Weather for Ducks | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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