Word: ducked
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...starting to walk like a municipal duck, and quack like a municipal duck," said Assemblyman Bill Leonard (R-San Bernadino) of the emerging consensus. "And eventually, it becomes a municipal power authority...
...Learn to duck You've said some things you'd like to take back. Too late. So practice backpedaling. "Senator, you have to understand the context in which I referred to women as geishas...
...meantime, the ibis fluttered about Tiananmen Square this weekend, posing for pictures with gawking tourists on the vast plaza. He was later spotted nearby enjoying a helping of Peking Duck at a restaurant on Beijing's glamorous Wangfujing Street...
...years has given me the same unbridled, childlike joy as watching a cartoon. Clinton was our first cartoon President. He ran off cliffs, was crushed by anvils and flattened by turn-of-the-century trains. Yet moments later, we always saw him, just like Wile E. Coyote or Daffy Duck, completely reassembled and eagerly pursuing his next crazy scheme. Essentially, people love cartoon characters because they cannot be hurt. They defy the rules of Greek tragedy. Clinton, unlike Richard Nixon or Lyndon Johnson, was not undone by his flaws. Whenever the smoke cleared, Clinton remained standing, covered in soot...
...Bank and Gaza have left the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington traditionally relies to cajole Arafat into concessions facing mounting pressure from their own people to take a tougher stance. Nobody in the region is particularly bullish about the prospects of a peace deal concluded with a lame-duck U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister who, according to most estimates, is headed for an ignominious defeat when Israel goes to the polls a month from...