Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These cuts were proposed last week by President Eisenhower when he asked for 5.2 billion dollars less in military appropriations that was requested in Truman's "lame-duck budget." Almost this entire cut is in the Air Force appropriations which are to be slashed from 16.7 billion to 11.7 billion...
Small Voice. In St. Louis, when police asked John Shannon whether he had broken a window of the Supreme Poultry & Fish Co. and stolen a duck, he retorted: "I don't know a thing about it," was contradicted by a loud quack from inside his shirt...
...rail against "our godless campuses," Walsh recognizes a religious vacuum in most colleges. Putting the point differently, he declares that the campuses have in fact a plethora of gods, false gods with no effective challenge from the true, Christian Deity. With Christianity under the wing of a lame-duck Department of Religion, under no formal wing at all, or ludicrously capsuled in the binge of a "Religious Emphasis Week," the field is abandoned to haloed secular gods, like relativism, materialism, and "scientism." In Campus Gods on Trial, Walsh tries to prove the inadequacy of the varied isms as philosophies...
Captain Harold E. Fischer Jr., 27, the U.S.'s third-ranking jet ace,* is a shy, boyish-looking Iowa farm boy who drew a bead on a MIG-15 as if he were leading a wild duck. Interviewed last month on becoming a "double ace," he embarrassed the Air Force by saying that he knocked out eight of his ten MIGs, not by using the Air Force's fine radar gunsight, but just by using "Kentucky windage" to get on his target...
...indeed they had: ". . . absolutely captivating . . . more terrifying than the child monster in The Children's Hour . . ."), and were waging psychological warfare against her. In one scene, Stevens has to carry Jenny onstage through a fire door; Mrs. Hecht feared that "if we didn't tell her to duck, she would have her head bashed in." She pleaded with Stevens: "Why don't you try to charm Jenny?" But he ignored the suggestion...