Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear strange noises in the night; to see senior officers who had burned themselves playing with fire between tea and dinner; to watch strange weapons (which occasionally worked) being tried out with live ammunition beside the wallflower beds on the lawn; to glimpse the colonel in something between a duck punt and a one-man submarine among the water lilies on the ornamental pond...
White House mail piled higher & higher. The larder bulged with Christmas gifts of plum pudding, wild turkey, venison, duck, pheasant and guinea hen. Tinseled wreaths filled the White House windows with color. Outside, the national Christmas tree towered over the frozen south lawn...
Over the Side, Over the Hill. But every time she put into port, more crewmen had become eligible for a "ruptured duck" lapel button. By last week, 50 officers and 500 men had gone over the side with their bags...
...system, for 34 years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman - who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter - -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird...
Nobody planned, in August or September, that things would happen this way in China in November. The world's most powerful nation was not then ready to plan the peace of the most populous. We acted on hope and in furtherance of Japanese dis armament. Now Americans may duck out, but the U.S. has gone too deeply into the China affair to duck all responsibility for what may ensue. If all-out civil war develops, our moral position may be more uncomfortable than...