Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memphis, the humane officers reported catching for the month of April: 1,934 dogs, 301 cats, seven rats, four foxes, three chickens, two possums, two rabbits, one horse, one duck, one steer, one lion...
...specifically prepared to make pithy headlines. After that, in his dealings with the press, Gromyko set out to prove himself an amiable man of peace, erase the image of the sullen spokesman who so often barked nyet at the U.N. Security Council. While the Western foreign ministers tended to duck out of range, Gromyko smilingly posed for photographers, even agreed to chat with the New York Times's James ("Scotty") Reston and A. M. Rosenthal when they showed up unannounced at his villa...
After a surprised pause the 150 newsmen, used to having celebrities duck tough questions instead of invite them, began firing from the hip. The Shah shrugged off possibilities of a revolution ("the line adopted by Moscow radio"). But he frankly admitted that some tribal chiefs opposed him, although he had recently banned New York Timesman Sam Pope Brewer from Iran for saying as much. Asked about his blacklist of correspondents, the Shah said, "I wonder if even Mr. Sam Pope Brewer could not return to Iran...
Clutching his robust, rosy-faced companion by a lapel last week, Baltimore's lame-duck Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. grunted a political watchword through the haze and hubbub of an election-night hotel room. Said Tommy: "Be humble, Harold, be as humble as you can when you say it." Nodding politely, J. (for Joseph) Harold Grady, 42, retrieved his lapel, rushed off to deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor...
...gone with Mrs. Herter to catch a few days' secluded rest before taking over as Secretary of State. In bygone days at the 12,000-acre retreat (owned by Mrs. Herter's family, and called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with...