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Word: ducking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem to be suffering from a common disorder: the substitution of a large fowl for your parents. It's not so much that it's a turkey--it could be a large duck or swan--but the point is, it likes to moralize. And a moralizing turkey is the worst kind. Perhaps these are your own worst fears, fears that you can only face in this particular form--at least they're edible. It's obvious that the family-induced trauma of the Thanksgiving season has gotten to you. Drink lots of beer, engage in anti-family activities and these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So How Does He Floss? | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...exams before winter break, we'd have to come back to Harvard and work. We'd have to trudge to the Yard for classes instead of putting off the library for another day. We'd have to wear duck boots--all the time. January just wouldn't be the same...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Pets, Politics, Procrastination | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

...pavement path in search of winged wildlife. Varying in age from freshman to senior, each birder was dressed for the part--warm, sturdy clothing, sleek binoculars and a copy of The Field Guide to North American Birds. Co-captain of the team Allen Hutcheson '95 also sported a duck call. "They're not standard equipment," he said...

Author: By Elisabeth A. Mayer, | Title: The best, the brightest, the bird-brained | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...Wilson said that his duck tours will notdiffer markedly from the already existing trolleytours that operate in Boston and Cambridge...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: WWII-Era Tanks to Arrive in Square | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

While Boston Duck Tours has already receivedapproval from the Cambridge License Commission,the new firm has been denied the use of MemorialDrive and the banks of the Charles by theMetropolitan District Commission, which controlsall park lands...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: WWII-Era Tanks to Arrive in Square | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

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