Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With police helicopters hovering overhead, the presidential motorcade drove by block after block of devastated buildings, many of them burned to charred shells by arsonists. The President got out of his car twice to walk through the rubble with HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and New York's lame-duck mayor, Abraham Beame. "Let me walk about a block," he told his Secret Service agents at one point, and then he proceeded, in good campaign style, to shake hands with slumdwellers who crowded doorsteps and street corners. "How are you doing, Jimmy? What a surprise," said Ramón Rueda...
Playing in weather better suited to a duck symposium than a football game, the Harvard J.V. football team handed the Dartmouth squad its second loss in five years yesterday, surfacing to victory...
...Stokowski been a full-time politician, instead of the most political of maestros, he would have been a sitting duck for the cartoonists. As it was, detractors mocked his phony accent and snickered when he shook hands with Mickey Mouse in Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940). Yet he was one of the 20th century's handful of true geniuses. He could draw from an orchestra-almost any orchestra-sounds that shimmered gloriously...
...Watson '37, the current director, has been trying to call an end to his three-decade Harvard career for almost a year now, but political infighting has blocked the choice of his successor and forced him to stay on. In the meantime, Watson, all too sure of his lame-duck status and unwilling to burden his successor with his long-term decisions, has his hands tied, and the department's activity has slowed to glacial speed...
Around dating bars in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Berkowitz was remembered as a quiet listener who would timidly attempt to join animated conversation, inject a few comments with his bemused smile, quickly be cut out of a group as an odd duck, retreat, then try futilely to strike up a conversation with others...