Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese words visitors to Hanoi usually learn are may bay (airplane). Just before an attack, children will run along the streets, pointing to the sky and yelling 'May bay!' Shelters are in homes, restaurants, offices and along streets and highways. Seconds before the bombs fall, people will duck into the shelters, and before the dust settles they will be out again, carrying on their business...
...quickly take advantage of "bomb salvage" sales, shopping behind barricades of wire and submitting to body checks at street corners. They have even formed their own vocabulary for what is happening around them. A building is not bombed; someone "puts the touch" to it. An army patrol becomes a "duck patrol" because the British soldiers, nervously fingering their weapons, walk the streets like sitting ducks. People who are murdered in their homes get "the midnight knock," while those killed in demonstrations are victims of "an aggro," meaning an aggravation. The conflict itself is called, with simple eloquence, "the troubles...
...French Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also...
...amount of speechifying, however, could dim the fact that the American Party, founded three years ago and made up of various state parties that had backed Wallace in the 1968 presidential election, was what one dispirited conventioneer called a "headless horseman." The delegates nominated a lame-duck Republican Congressman from California named John Schmitz for President and Thomas Anderson, 61, conservative publisher of Florida Grower and Rancher magazine for Vice President...
...Duck, You Sucker is even more frivolous than the usual Leone. The action, of which there is the customary abundance, takes place in Mexico during the waning days of the revolution. Rod Steiger swaggers through various robberies as a goodhearted, simple-minded bandido whose fondest dream is to knock over the bank in Mesa Verde. He gets his chance when he meets with James Coburn, who plays a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. How Coburn got from the Emerald Isle to Mexico, or why he is a fugitive, is left totally unexplained in the best Leone tradition. Coburn does...