Word: ducking
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Although the Senate has already passed its version of the measure and the House of Representatives is scheduled to consider the bill during its November "lame duck" session, "Harvard is damned concerned that the differences on the Hill and political obstacles may threaten" the legislation, Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, said yesterday...
...Senate will not consider a bill that limits public disclosure of covert United States intelligence agents until a special "lame duck" session after the November elections, because the Judiciary Committee has failed to reach a compromise on the measure...
From the road, Kuralt sent back video short stories describing life in those patches of light: an election in which nobody ran for office, a town full of champion duck callers, a 78-year-old man who had spent 20 years building a road singlehanded, a town on the edge of Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Each vignette, Kuralt hoped, would provide "a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that this country is." In sharp contrast to the rest of the news, his stories celebrated qualities of playfulness, compassion, pride, and individual accomplishment. Says he: "I could never...
Into this desiccated shell of a man blows an outlandish wind of salvation, a rickety truck full of outcasts who make the Joads seem like landed gentry. Duck Bexley is the woebegone father of a brood of five; his wife Elizabeth is pregnant with the sixth. Bexley earned his name from a father who thought that trouble fell off him as water off a duck; in truth it clings to him like fresh tar from a hot summer road. In Korea, he won a Bronze Star for annihilating 44 Chinese trapped in a ravine. Their ghosts haunt...
...Sweet (as opposed to sour) Kraut," the "Duck" and "Vaya Con" are Hunt's code names for Gretchen Klapfor, Leslie Voit and Anita Diaz, respectively. All three runners suffered injuries last year but Hunt says they have great potential to boost this year's squad. (In case you didn't figure it out, Diaz' nickname dervies from the Spanish saying "Vaya con Dios", which means "go with God." Hunt says, "If she ever becomes captain, I can tell the whole team, 'Vaya con Diaz' and they'll have a great leader...