Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corrosive impact of modernization on traditional values. It is a complaint, however, more properly leveled at the concepts of technology and progress rather than at the First World. After all, no aid donor forces a poor country to opt for economic growth. South Korea's Deputy Premier Nam Duck Woo recently noted what ought to be obvious to all underdeveloped countries: "As people get richer, their values become more materialistic...
...just how many specimens of a particular species the department has, you first have to look the animal up in a small file. Under Ornithorhynchus Anatinus, there are 31 listings, cross-indexed to the sagging ledgers. That book says that the first specimens of Ornithorhynchus, commonly known as the duck-billed platypus of Australia, were handed over to Alexander Agassiz in 1878 by E. Gerrard Jr. Those first specimens are skeletal parts and they are catalogued, down to the last tibia, in a small hand in black ink under the title Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus...
...Lame Duck. Last week's showdown at the White House did not bury Moynihan's differences with Washington, and the announcement made no mention of how long Moynihan would stay in his post. At the U.N. many considered him a lame duck, his effectiveness curtailed. This would please his critics but not settle the question: How should the U.S. view the U.N., as a place for conciliation or for confrontation...
...this is where he's at his very best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck and--for a sinister Calvinist-type--Benjamin Fatalist ("The Fatalist"); or describing holiday revels ("Passions...
...stores carried: drugs, cameras, records. They sold well but did not earn much profit. In their place went goods aimed at people who had money to spend on more than boring necessities. The result in microcosm: Bloomingdale's sells no men's razors, but it does sell bloc of duck liver with green pepper...