Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold E. Stassen, three-term governor of Minnesota, now wearing a gold duck in his lapel after three years as a Commander in the Navy, has, in three days in Cambridge, walked softly and talked gently to at least 2000 undergraduates, graduates, faculty members, and newspapermen...
...Bavarian custom, a victory for a centuries-long tradition of Catholic, monarchical conservatism. U.S. officials had seen it coming, and tried to duck. On the eve of the election they had banned Christian Social Union leader Friedrich Schaeffer from voting or holding party membership, denounced him as a "Nazi sympathizer...
Disney's setting of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring a wolf whose gullet looks like something out of Dante; a cat which, in a moment of terror, has an all-claws resemblance to a brier bush; and a cute little feeble-minded duck named Sonia...
...still-life published by the Evening Globe yesterday purported to show the "real" Ibis, posed with what the Lampsters called "the Crimson's prize duck" and a mysterious beer mug. But a brief investigation revealed the two birds to be outsiders put over on the gullible Globe...
...Africa, Europe, Asia, Washington, D.C. Sometimes his job, and his living quarters were so pleasant that "I felt heartily ashamed of [our] comfort [while] our combat units, replete with Spam, [were] contesting with the cold and the mud." Yet even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such a rush that "my rare and wonderful...