Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre story. Just before duck on a November day in 1974. Karen Silkwood was killed on her way to meet a New York Times reporter. She had said she was bringing evidence which would prove that her employer, the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation, was manufacturing defective plutonium fuel rods, but her car went out of control on a lonely stretch of Oklahoman highway and the documents never arrived. Only a few days earlier, she had been contaminated by eating and inhaling plutonium, which AEC investigators concluded was deliberately placed in her apartment...
...hospital bed was real, but the president was still speaking lines from a B-movie. "Honey, I forgot to duck," he told his wife Nancy. "I hope you're all Republicans," he quipped to his doctors before the operation. The movies could never have been far from Reagan's mind after the shooting because, as Johnny Carson reported during the Academy Awards, the president had requested a bedside television for the specific purpose of watching the Oscars...
DIED. Michael Maltese, 72, pre-eminent cartoon animator and writer who, starting in 1937, helped create such characters as Henery Hawk, Sylvester Cat and Road Runner, and invented countless comic calamities for them and others, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and the Flintstones; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...women's Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Brown University last week, sophomore butterfly ace KATHLEEN "MAD MAC" McCLOSKEY celebrated her twentieth birthday in fine style. Not only did she receive several cakes and a few singing serenades, but the team presented her with a rubber duck life preserver which she wore to lunch at the Marriott Hotel...Although co-captain and Rhodes Scholar DEBBIE JACOBS was prevented from competing in the Ivies because of a broken arm, she suited up--cast and all--for the 100-yd. freestyle and got onto the blocks to wave and smile when...
Dinners at the embassy featured game from the Ambassador's personal backyard preserve, including duck, rabbit, chicken and lamb. Indeed, by the end of the negotiations, the Ambassador's stock was down to a desert fox, and that, said Arnold Raphel, a special assistant to the Secretary of State, "was probably not very tasty...