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Word: ducked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well the other matter of his marriage: the simple, gentle soul his wife remembers walked out of it with a $1,000,000 settlement. And if you still need convincing -- though perhaps this isn't playing fair -- just take a look at the guy. Notice the runty size, the duck waddle of a walk, the well-tinted hairdo sculpted to his face, the elfish upward twist of the eyebrows. It's as if this Battle had got its sexes mixed up. If this is the figurehead of sexism, the tough-skinned Tarzan of the hour, well then, things have changed...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

...rationalizations were just a way to duck the larger issue: equal admission of men and women, the logical next step for an institution with a decaying male tradition...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: Merger Yielded to Non-Merger Merger | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Duck Soup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glutton's Guide to Harvard Square | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Soup is, obviously enough, the thing to have at Duck Soup. Though the menu has more than just soup on it, Duck Soup's versions of traditional offerings (which most people have tasted only out of the Campbell's can) are so much better that they can literally be meals in themselves. And the chili is hot enough to make an antihistamine spray seem like a good idea to clear smashed sinuses. Duck Soup is buried in the little jungle of specialty shops on Boylston St., but it's well worth the trouble to find it. And as long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glutton's Guide to Harvard Square | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...himself clad only in a supporter. If it has contributed nothing substantial to the history of sexism in the '70s, the Riggs-King repartee has at least lent some much-needed humor. Billie Jean cannot resist getting into the spirit occasionally. She calls him "Roberta" and mocks his duck-footed waddle. "I'm pigeon-toed," she says, "so maybe this match should be billed as the duck v. the pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

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