Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conquest and roused free men against them, then a great good has been achieved. The other half of the verdict waits on the people of the U.S., for what has been gained by Korea could be undone, if Korean losses and a subsequent disillusionment persuade the U.S. to duck the next challenge...
...explain why he dropped a tax case against one Isadore Alford of Nashville in 1950. This time the Congressmen thought they might have a lead to a fourth motive-influence-when they popped a blunt question: Wasn't it true that Lamar had been taken on a duck hunt, and thus influenced, by Alford's attorney...
Beaming, Lamar said he had gone on the duck hunt-but that he definitely had not been influenced. It was, he said, a "messed-up" duck hunt. The weather was cold, he didn't like to kill ducks, he had no heavy clothing-and he only agreed to go because "the brethren" (including Alford's attorney) had made all the preparations...
...boat parted those trees," Lamar recalled, "just like you part your hair with a comb." And when he discovered the water around the duck blind was frozen, the guide tried to use the boat as an icebreaker. "All of a sudden," said Lamar, "I noticed that the ice had sawed the boat in two. The water was aflyin' . . . but we made it back to the blind. We stayed there three or four hours. Finally some old duck came in by mistake. Smith grabbed a gun . . . and hit a decoy...
...When I got back to the hotel, I pulled open the bureau drawer and put my hand on the Gideon and said: 'Lord, never let me be tempted to go on another duck hunt.' Then I called my wife to tell her I was safe...