Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even proposed to his Cabinet a Constitutional amendment to cover the case. His Cabinet voted the idea down. In October the Senate convened. Jefferson presented the treaties covering the transaction for ratification, and the Senate gave consent. Though rival Federalists were glum, in Washington, "every pig, goose and duck, far and near," was rounded up for two days of feasting and cheers...
...citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics, and he will embrace all these concepts--he will picture the typical Harvard student as a wealthy young snob, driving madly to a deb party in his sixteen cylinder-convertible, and distributing communist literature as he goes...
...Lewes, Del., when Commodore John B. Wine of the Lewes Yacht Club fired the starting gun for a race, he winged a wild duck...
Eighteen years ago, when the first national public links tournament was held at Toledo, only half the contestants owned golf shoes, most of them played in suspenders and knew no more about golf etiquette than to duck when they heard the word "Fore!" Last week the public linksters looked as natty as their country-club cousins. And they played as well, if not better...
...started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...