Word: ducked
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Designated hitter David Ortiz, wearing a “Big Daddy” jersey, pointed to individuals in the crowd as his duck boat drove...
...procession of 17 duck boats—the amphibious World War II-era vehicles familiar to Boston tourists—carried Red Sox families, players and staff through the streets from Fenway Park to downtown Boston, before descending into the Charles River to float past more fans lining the bridges and riverbanks...
...players seemed as excited as the fans; pitcher Pedro Martinez danced to rap music blaring from the duck boats’ loudspeakers as pitcher Curt Schilling waved...
There will be a number of ways for liberals to respond to another questionable election loss like that of 2000. Maybe people will just take it in their stride and accept the horrors of a lame-duck Bush administration. Then again, in many other countries stolen or rigged elections can trigger riots—though that is unlikely to do much, even if people do have the right to bear assault rifles again. No, the secular and sensible will probably just have to grin and bear the following four years much as they did the last four and hope that...
...more evidence that the pigeon you see in the park had an ancestor that ruled the earth. Writing in Nature over the past two weeks, Chinese and American paleontologists announced the discovery of one dinosaur that evidently slept curled up in a posture identical to that of a sleeping duck and another that is the first tyrannosaur ever found with feathers. The discovery of the tyrannosaur is significant because that family of dinosaurs is believed to be among the closest relatives of modern birds...