Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...count to get higher." Despite this, Driver does not want to see Nixon impeached, or even implicated further. "I'd prefer to see Nixon kept in office, but with his powers reduced by a more effective Congress," he explains. "We'd have 3½ years of lame-duck drift, that...
...night he saw eleven moons over the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts. Then he saw a huge duck directing traffic at an intersection. Not long after that, Dwayne was walking across his asphalt parking lot when his bad chemicals made the asphalt give way beneath him. He thought he was sinking into a kind of "shallow, rubbery dimple." He climbed from dimple to dimple toward the office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that...
AFTER ONLY two months of his second term, President Nixon has already become a lame duck President. The Watergate crisis has seriously undermined the credibility of his Administration, and has doomed any domestic and foreign policy programs that Nixon intended to push through the slightly Democratic Congress...
...Indonesia, plus a tour as Deputy Foreign Minister, Huang became Peking's first Ambassador to France in 1964. As such, he became involved in Henry Kissinger's negotiations with Peking and impressed American diplomats. They also learned that he has yet another talent-cooking. His specialty: Peking duck...
...Lyon") and continued with pâté de foie gras that had been made the same morning. Next came the shrimp soup ("Escoffier would have been horrified at how simple it is. Just some shrimp, white wine, heavy cream, butter, a few shallots"). The fourth course was wild duck in green pepper sauce ("If you come in December, you can eat duck that I shoot myself"). Though sated by now, Englund continued through the goat cheese-Collonges goats, of course-but a sense of self-preservation made him turn down the pastry and the seven varieties of fruit...