Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact remained last week, after more German air raids over the North Sea, one of which ended with a lone Heinkel bomber being brought down like a shot duck near the mouth of the Firth of Forth, that Germany's winter campaign of harassment affects the mass of Britain's shipping about as much as a woodpecker tapping on a bank vault. Because of the small bombs used and the difficulty of sighting for enough lethal hits, most of the ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning...
...Washington, the House for the fourth time since 1922 considered a Federal anti-lynching bill. When a similar bill was last up in the House, Mississippi lynchers did their timely bit by blow-torching, shooting and roasting two Negroes to death at Duck Hill (TIME, April 26, 1937). The consequent horror sped the bill through the House but did not weaken Southern Senators, who filibustered the measure to sleep, as they had done its predecessors. Last week Congressman William Meyers Colmer of Pascagoula, Miss, addressed himself to the 1940 bill's chief sponsor-white, Tammany-Irish Joe Gavagan, from...
...cooks up fantastic agricultural schemes to break the country. Fanny Perkins gets it coming & going from A. F. of L. and C. I. O. Louis Johnson is supposed to be running the Army and Attorney General Murphy is out to steal poor Tom Dewey's thunder. Harold ("Donald Duck") Ickes is to Republicans a windy mad mahout...
Like yesterday's newspaper, last night's radio program is usually dead as a duck by morning, and most radio programs live for just such transitory glory. But every now and again somebody stages a program that seems worth "clipping out." For would-be radio clippers, a young radioman named Max Wylie, script director at CBS, last week published a 576-page book, Best Broadcasts of 1938-39,* containing reprints or samples of 32 "bests" in as many fields of radio endeavor. To pick his bests, Wylie spent 16 months reading 6,000 scripts, squawked in his preface...
...with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...