Word: ducked
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...uncertainty of life after Sharon and Arafat means that Israelis and Palestinians do not have the luxury of waiting for brighter days. A deal must be struck before the most radical elements of both societies get a chance to further derail the peace process. The lame-duck autocrat and the war criminal have no choice but to work together. They must somehow muster the strength to come to the negotiating table and they must do it now. In the Middle East, tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone...
...sneak a fully-loaded five-foot rifle through the metal detectors and into the terminal, but this Thanksgiving he had one slung over his shoulder. And if a grumpy business traveler should hurry through a security checkpoint, I could only wonder whether everyone in the vicinity would have to duck when he pointed his M-16 in threat...
Great CEOs, like great politicians, like the sound of their own names. "Do I enjoy walking into a restaurant and having people point me out? It takes a pretty strange duck not to like adulation," he told Canada's National Post in 1999. In times of crisis, the best leaders show the kind of unshakable confidence that suffused Bloomberg last week. As he sailed into a press conference on Friday, he grinned at the sight of more than 60 journalists packed into his campaign headquarters. "The crowd gets bigger every time," he said...
...after the show begins, the audience is convinced there is nothing Jay can’t do with a deck of cards. Jay proves that in an inspired second-act sequence in which he treats a deck of playing cards as deadly weapons to assault a wall, a plastic duck and, in a moment of delightfully frenzied lunacy, a watermelon...
...Radar really necessary? Whatever happened to good old-fashioned intuitive gaydar? “My mama always said that if it looks like a gay duck, walks like a gay duck, and talks like a gay duck, then it probably is one real gay duck. Thus, I think Gaydar would be a tad gratuitous,” commented Ryan Wilkes ’03. Other students appeared to agree with Wilkes. “If you want others to know you’re gay, an extra-small T-shirt from the Gap seems sufficient...