Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawker developed his own exotic mode of operating, including in his letters lengths of red and yellow wire tied in a twisted knot to certify their authenticity. He negotiated with the FBI by quacking out his instructions on a duck caller over a citizens' band radio frequency in Morse-like code. It was the radio that finally did him in. An FBI agent monitoring the channel traced the signal to a 1968 Plymouth passing through southeast Portland and arrested Heesch and his wife Sheila...
...Duck Soup [1933]. The Marx Brothers, all four of them. Ch. 38, 4:30 p.m., 1 1/2 hours...
Field & Stream (circ. 1,860,000), a monthly devoted to duck hunting, fishing and other woodsy pursuits, hardly seems like a cockpit of ideological controversy. Yet in recent weeks its owner, the Columbia Broadcasting System, has been the target of angry letters and calls from the environment and conservation lobbies. Some of the protests came from members of Congress, including Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources. Then 50 irate conservationists waved placards in front of CBS's Washington office. Cause of the wrath: the firing of Field & Stream's widely known conservation...
Police Officers Donald Quinn and Jimmy Schulla from the first precinct, sent to watch the demonstration, said the protest was "duck soup." "The thing has gone beyond the busing issue; the solution is quality education. Why didn't they bus the teachers?" Schulla said...
...disruptive return from a prospecting expedition, a brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily on mortality, he breaks her grief with a tall story. "Poor Ducky...