Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fruitful Life. Meanwhile John Okie enjoyed life. He traveled to Europe, brought back art objects for the Big Tepee, entertained lavishly. There were-and still are-deer and antelope, grouse, pheasant and duck to be hunted on the vast ranch. The tumbling creeks flash with trout. In 1930, aged 67, John Okie went hunting ducks along one of his irrigation reservoirs, slipped in and was drowned. The 57,500-acre empire of the Big Father declined...
...Japanese suicide planes crash-dived the destroyer off Okinawa. A bomb jammed the rudder, and the ship heeled in a sitting-duck circle. Flaming gasoline billowed over the decks, burning gunners strapped to their seats. Said Commander Frederick J. Becton: "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire...
...shell fragment seriously injured LIFE Photographer W. Eugene Smith, just as he was shooting a final picture for a layout on "A Day with a Front-Line Soldier." Commented Smith, a veteran of 13 Pacific actions and 23 combat bombing missions, at a field hospital afterwards: "I forgot to duck, but I got a good picture of those...
...seldom find reason to question TIME'S accuracy, but I would like to mention that I was highly incensed by the Cinema editor's wanton attack upon my friend Donald Duck's personality (The Three Caballeros, Feb. 19). The editor's erroneous reference to Donald as a "combination of loud little boy and loud little duck" is evidence that he does not realize how faithfully Donald portrays the inescapable fact that life at best is usually a series of frustrations for the average guy. If this character of yours knew Donald as I, and countless others...
...TIME'S Cinema editor feels that an animated duck is liable to be more frustrated than ever if he insists on pursuing an animate lady friend...