Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and Navy last week demonstrated that they are invincible, if only on a football field. In The Bronx and Philadelphia, on fields closely resembling duck soup, the Cadets and the Midshipmen kept their 1941 football records clean-Army for the fifth successive week, Navy for the sixth...
Critic. Near Boise, Idaho, a duck hunter shot & shot, missed & missed. Finally his sympathetic dog swam out and fetched him a decoy...
...British Broadcasting Corp. had to cope with a voice which was quickly nicknamed Harassing Harry or von Donald-the latter because of its high, rasping resemblance to the quacking of Donald Duck. Into BBC newscasts von Donald injected such quacks as "We want a national Government, not an American Government or a Jewish Government or a Government of the Press. . . . We are being swindled and led up a garden path and sold to America. . . . Too much talk. We want more food. Churchill will get his cigars...
...wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...
Walter Huston plays the Devil with demoniacal glee. Disguised as Mr. Scratch, a quizzical Yankee trader with a duck hunter's cap, bristly sideburns and stubble beard, he is a puckish tempter. Whether he is getting Daniel plastered, playing the bass drum in the village band, or spryly nibbling a carrot, he seems to be hugely enjoying his part. He is the kind of Devil most people would like to know...