Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., A.B.C). The Story of Donald Duck. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Manhattan Merchant Adam Gimbel and Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra. Damon Runyon Theater (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Dancing Dan's Christmas. General Electric Theater (Sun 9 p.m., CBS). The Windmill, with James Stewart. A-Bomb Test Blast (Tues., 8 a.m.. CBS and NBC). On-the-spot (Yucca Flat, Nev.) radio-TV coverage. Bob Hope (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). With Lloyd Nolan, French Songstress Line Renaud...
...Only one constitutional amendment, the 20th (to begin the President's term on Jan. 20 instead of March 4 and to eliminate the Lame-Duck Congress), has ever been ratified by all 48 states...
...once put a sign outside his office: WOMEN FORBIDDEN. Yet Diem is also- indulgent and demonstrative, downs huge breakfasts of such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone he dislikes, he will sometimes spit across the room and snarl, "dirty type...
Brave Little Hens. When the earnings report of July 1942 shows 6 lbs. of ingots, 208 napoleons and 40,000 francs a month from assorted speculations, the Poissonards decide to pay their respects to the head of state, Marshal Petain. They bring him a box of duck eggs, and the ancient hero of Verdun mumbles: "Brave little hens of France." But soon it is time for the Bon Beurre to butter up a new power. A good year before war's end, the Poissonards are tactfully praising DeGaulle in public, and Charles-Hubert becomes a hero of the Resistance...
...Quack, quack," said the duck...