Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of top-flight naval aviators in a Navy building projection room in Washington last week intently watched the latest Walt Disney film. It was no Donald Duck comedy they were watching, but the newest training film for Navy fighter pilots. It was also another achievement for a veteran airman whom Navy flyers recognize as their best fighter tactician...
With other youngsters, like Lieut. Commander "Jimmy" Flatley, he shouted for more training in deflection shooting - i.e., "leading" the enemy plane, as a hunter fires ahead of a speeding duck to intercept his course. From gunnery it was a short step to tactics-the science of placing and maneuvering planes to do the most damage to the enemy...
...begun to believe Mabel is sittin' on glass eggs ... It's been three weeks now and still no results ... Some farmer told me it takes four however ... so here's hopin ... Papa duck hasn't been seen by the j. g. of B23 lately ... We hope he isn't two timing Mabel at this critical stage...
Mabel the mallard duck with her must in front of the Student club is undoubtedly one of the best attended mallard ducks in the countryside. Mabel not only has father duck bringing her choice edibles. . . she has a certain (jg) bringing her bread crumbs from Cowie Hall . . . Also within duck-bill length Mabel has a bowl full of water which said (jg) also religiously fills. I can't mention the (jg's) name. . . . He outranks me. . . . In fact, he is very rank at times...
...season with its cockeye bobs (man-eating storms) turned his plans topsy-turvy. Lost for days, his horses gone, Norman was picked up by a band of aborigines and comforted: "Proper good country dis one. Plenty kangaroo, plenty buffalo, plenty bandicoot, plenty yam, plenty goose, plenty duck, plenty lubra [squaws], plenty corroboree [dancing...