Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Election of officers was the first official action of the newly-elected Council. It took place at the start of the final meeting of the lame-duck 1947-1948 Council...
...their final session, the delegates to the Inter-American conference rode out of scarred Bogotá to the white-walled home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...rough justice. When a plug is due, he bangs on his "attention getter" (a pair of crash cymbals) as a red alert to the audience. Most of the transcribed commercials are played at either very slow or breakneck speeds, so that they sound like either a foghorn or Donald Duck. On one occasion he treated his listeners to ten minutes of Bach, with interpolated comments and seal yelps. Conductor Mark Warndw, after hearing a Hawthorne show, said judiciously: "He's half haw, half thorn...
...last four leap years the Winnipeg Tribune had listed Garnet Coulter among the city's most eligible bachelors. He looked like a fixture. A man who enjoyed duck hunting and poker sessions with the boys, he was thought to be an impregnable singleton. Besides, Garnet Coulter, mayor since 1942, had a big city...
...what to do about Harriet. Agent Lightfoot was an invaluable spy, but he had up & married a little moron without party consent, and (they decided) she would have to be "eliminated." Obviously, Agent Lightfoot was the man best qualified to do the eliminating. Lightfoot protested, but he took Harriet duck-hunting and tried to blow her head off. When he failed, the Apparatus decided that bungling Agent Lightfoot must be eliminated himself...