Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wings a piano played softly Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. A squatty ballerina in pink & white tarlatan waddled across the broad, bare stage with the grace of an angry duck, poised herself on her toes in the manner of Alicia Markova and executed a series of shaky pirouettes. To no music at. all she leaped through the air and beat her chest in an athletic agony that was unmistakably Martha Graham...
...moved to Boston for the 1947 campaign. This would be small consolation to those turned away, Bingham again admitted, but finance makes any other set-up impossible. Bingham also remarked that if the team this year was as good as it was in 1945, he might have to duck more than a few hot student invectives on this count...
Many an accused would find it easy to duck out of range by denying, as usual, that Communism motivated his policy. But the resolution, unanimously accepted by the convention, will be a weapon of sorts for right-wingers. The first quarry they expected to use it on: Reid Robinson, of the miners & smelters, leftist vice president of C.I.O...
Winged Victory. In Woodland, Calif., duck hunter Charles Roller found a pelican with a broken wing, started to set it, had to struggle to keep the bird quiet, got his head caught in its 15-inch beak...
...sodas a day, but usually managed to borrow against the future. Father read Andersen's and Grimm's fairy tales to his kids; if there was a vaudeville show he took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from her school desk promptly at 2 p.m. every day, strode out to meet her father. Their box was directly over the dugout, and Helen knew...