Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fort Monmouth, N.J., where the Signal Corps has 2,000 pigeons in training, Lieut. Thomas MacClure will not have far to look for his pursuit birds. The best U.S. native hunter is the peregrine, or duck hawk, a long-winged bird of prey that has nested for centuries in the cliffs along the Hudson, now rests also atop the skyscrapers of Manhattan, preys on pigeons in the parks...
...days later, another exercise called the Second in again, to finish off the once-friendly Fifth, after the 27th and 30th had driven the Fifth across the Duck River. As in the first exercise, George Patton, wearing his newfangled globular tank helmet,* was in the thick of action, ran his show with snap and speed. (Said he: "You can't move a string of spaghetti by pushing it from the hind...
North of Tennessee's meandering Duck River, where rolling meadows and woods break sharply into commanding hills, 55,000 U.S. fighting men last week worked at war. A few weeks before, frank General George Marshall had said that the U.S. Army was still in the high-school stage. In Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army, three divisions were far enough along in their courses to be sent to the Tennessee laboratory to show what they had learned, and study further in the hard school of field maneuver...
...Ichang neared, the bag of rice was shifted again to a duck-bottomed little junk. Five miles and one river bend above Ichang (the high-water mark of Japanese penetration) the junk ran onto the bank, and the bag of rice was loaded on a coolie's back. The coolie, who carried the rice up a wire-tangled gully toward Divisional H.Q., could hear the boom of artillery. But it was not Chinese artillery...
...empty air-raid shelter in London. He is a self-consciously cute American busily flying bombers to Britain. She is a rich and proper English girl dutifully chauffeuring a War Office Earl (Edmund Gwenn). He swears they made this date 10,000 years ago. She is baffled. He makes duck calls at her. She flees...