Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics joke that the battleship is so vulnerable it should be renamed the U.S.S. Sitting Duck. The Navy insists that more than ten hits by nonnuclear Soviet cruise missiles would be required to put it out of action. Reagan, noting that the New Jersey had cost $326 million to demothball, called the ship "a shining example" of "the maximum cost-effective application of high technology to existing assets...
After wounding the Pope, Agca was caught by police before he could duck into a getaway car. His alleged Bulgarian accomplices, two of whom Agca says were with him in the square, escaped...
...Mouse collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador Dali, which were commissioned by Walt as "inspirational sketches" for his animators. At the studio, "fine art" was stressed. As one executive had it, "If it works in a Rubens it must work in Donald Duck." Proof is offered in the book's juxtaposition of Renaissance sketches with drawings from the early Snow White and Pinocchio, to the still unfinished feature The Black Cauldron. The comparison holds; these oversize pages contain small masterpieces of illustration that deserve a place on museum walls. Onscreen, the cartoons...
Although the bill has already passed through the Senate. Coddington said he is confident the current lame-duck Congress will not pass it, because of the limited time Congress will have to discuss the proposed legislation...
Westerners who have met Aliyev find him personable, polished and not one to duck a question. Earlier this year, when a visiting diplomatic delegation in Baku asked him to explain how Brezhnev's new agricultural policy would work, he cockily replied, "These are things we already did months ago in Azerbaijan...