Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep in the heart of Texas as a ranch guest of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Tennessee's prowling Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver showed that he can shoot as straight as Tennessee's Davy Crockett-even without his coonskin hat. Hunter Kefauver blasted at a duck with a shotgun, scored a clean miss...
...learn to save ground, to steal it; if an opening pops up on the rail, you learn to drop in there quick. A lot of tired old horses run on the bull rings, but you learn you can win on 'em if you can get 'em to duck in or out at the right moment. Another thing: the stewards are not so strict. You can ride the way you want to, pretty much...
Soak the Executive. Nobody offered any evidence that labor's rank and file duck overtime work to keep out of higher tax brackets, but many an industrialist feels that the up-to-87% bite out of top management salaries is harmful. "The effectiveness of the money incentive is being eroded by the tax rates in the upper brackets," said Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co.; "there are signs among the younger men that promotion is a little less attractive than it used to be ... When a promising young business executive decides that...
...Winchell was explosive. Out of their four years together on the Graphic grew a feud that lasts to this day. Says Ed: "Winchell's all through-and I'm an expert on Winchelliana. I've followed him like a hawk. He's a dead duck. He couldn't be resuscitated by injections at half-hour intervals...
Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...