Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recorded years of duck-hunting, the season that opened last week was the strangest; the ducks were booming -but not the hunters...
...there are more ducks this year than in 20 years. Eight years ago droughts and free shooting had sliced the North American duck population to 30 million. Hunting laws were tightened, the Government started a huge conservation program. And Ducks Unlimited, an organization financed by alarmed sportsmen, reclaimed a million acres in northwest Canada for protected breeding areas. Result: this season there are 125 million ducks...
...duck came roaring down the road and from it, as it passed by, flew a chorus of voices...
There were no casualties at the battle of Duck Hill. But the Army could not underestimate its significance, for there are many Duck Hills around the big Southern camps. At Duck Hill, short years back, two Negroes had been lynched by a particularly ugly method: blowtorches (TIME, April...
...Altostratus, a high, flat, greyish blanket, gives a flyer a wide range of maneuver: he can duck below it to look at the ground, climb above to hide, thread his way above and below to lose a pursuer...