Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, The Experience really started yesterday morning. Hopefully, you didn't begin by mistakenly proposing a 7 a.m. breakfast to your Ivied offpsring. Inviting a Harvard student to anything at the crack of dawn is akin to requesting a special order of duck a l'orange at the Harvard Union. It's just not done...
...beauty of handmade duck decoys has long been appreciated by many, if not by ducks. Now collectors are discovering another variety of folk art: fish decoys. They have traditionally been used by ice fishers to lure prey within - spearing range. Last month a 9-in. hand-carved trout with glass eyes and metal fins snared $18,700 at Sotheby's in New York City...
...angered by the Panama invasion was Peru's lame-duck President Alan Garcia Perez that he recalled his Ambassador to Washington and vowed not to attend the summit "as long as North American troops are illegally in Panama." After an appeal from Colombia's President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Garcia had a change of heart, and he now plans to be on hand in Cartagena. But tensions were further inflamed when in the heady days after Noriega's fall, the Pentagon clumsily leaked word of its plan to station an aircraft-carrier task force in international waters off Colombia's Caribbean...
...Baker flew into Moscow to prepare for the June superpower summit, he was uncertain whether his schedule would hold up. His engagement with Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze had already been rebooked twice. Then an apologetic Shevardnadze was forced to push their first appointment back an hour and had to duck out of the historic party conference to keep his date...
...competition was fierce. Bertha versus Psycho. Masher versue Robo-Duck. Claws versus Lego-zilla. Death Star versus Blind...