Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remembering the war, ,the average citizen could not feel justified in weeping, either over this advice or over his own plight. There were no new pillows to cry in, anyway: WPB had ordered all duck and goose feathers reserved for the Army...
...Army did not want men with dependents, although draft boards occasionally took one, anyhow. A man who acquired a wife before Pearl Harbor was reasonably certain of being deferred, provided that he didn't marry her to duck the draft. But if his wife was a working girl, or being supported by rich relatives, he was due to be inducted...
Warmly bundled up against the winter wind, an amateur ornithologist snooped around the shore line of Long Island last week to see what the scum of oil from torpedoed tankers was doing to the wild fowl. Oil is bad for ducks. It gets into their feathers and feed, makes them sick, keeps them from flying. The birdman was relieved to see only one miserable, oil-smeared duck...
...Spirit (Walt Disney's income-tax short starring Donald Duck; TIME...
...Spirit (Walt Disney's income-tax short starring Donald Duck; TIME...