Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
...Grillon, Mexico City's ultra-posh nightclub, 300 poets and writers of every political stripe gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road...
...Shells Come In. Staff Sergeant William E. Williams of Jasper, Fla., the tail gunner, winged the first German. Another Fortress crowded close to the stricken Pappy and swung its guns on the Germans. But Pappy was the wounded duck. The 1905 pressed home for the kill. Said Captain Williams...
...after he had flown a few hundred hours also brought in instructors who had been cadets only too recently. Combat pilots do not rate the Lockheed Hudson hard to handle, but it is mighty hot to fledglings whose most advanced experience has been in an AT- 9 . Yet "The Duck" found instructors who had flown Hudsons only two or three hours. Joe Duckworth was horrified. Two years ago they would not let a man sit in a bomber before he had flown 1,000 hours...
...year career he had achieved a record few men in U.S. history have equaled. Almost singlehandedly he brought about abolition of "lame duck" Congresses; he was largely responsible for Nebraska's unicameral legislature, for the TVA. But now the Senate would be without him. George W. Norris, running for re-election at 81, had been defeated...