Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sirs: I don't know TIME'S record for quick action, but I came across something yesterday that might be a record. I read in TIME, Jan. 5, a pretty interesting piece on detergents, which was accompanied by a striking (I might say unforgettable) photograph of two ducks-one floating in a tank of water, the other sinking (after the detergent had been added to the water). This week I received from book publishers William Morrow and Co. an advance copy of a mystery novel, The Case of the Drowning Duck. The jacket shows a duck expiring...
...soldiers found that their high-school books were right: Australia's fauna was indeed teeming with strange cases of arrested evolution. There, sure enough, were the duck-billed platypus, the kangaroo, the dingo dog. There was another one that the zoology writers had left out. He was the "wowser," strangest beastie of them...
Finally, both forces hold their noses at men who want a commission so as to dodge the draft or dodge the fight. War Secretary Stimson's No. 1 officer rule is that no one gets a commission so that he may duck the draft. And in the Navy, hundreds of frisky young officers holding desk jobs recently got a jolting communiqué: get on sea duty-or else...
...never liked Wordsworth in prep school, but today he had to admit that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the other side of the river. He turned towards Newell and suddenly espied two pug-nosed Cambridge waifs sitting on the bank fishing. Vag looked at them grandiloquently. "Salve, piscatores," he said. "Same to you, fish-face," came the reply...
...Specimens of such extinct creatures as the great auk, the Labrador duck, the sea mink; and the only Townsend's bunting (a bird) ever found in hand or in bush...