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Word: duckings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pond ducks was splashing near an empty boat. "Want to see something interesting?" (He stepped over the seats and pointed to a small wooden box in the rear) "See that--eleven duck eggs! That's the mother over there--they're mallards. We put some excelsior in this box after she laid the first egg and now she's laid ten more. They take thirty days to hatch and if you come back here then you can see duck chicks right on the boat...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: After Many a Summer...' | 5/1/1957 | See Source »

Closing the first phase of hearings with Dave Beck last week, Kennedy was surprised not at all to see Beck duck behind the Fifth Amendment. From. Counsel Kennedy came a typical reaction: "With the records we have, we'll prove what he would have said if he had talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOSTON TERRIER: Bob Kennedy Barks --& Bites | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where he discovers a pantherish moonshiner named Aaron McCool who echoes the sentiments that Duncan feels: "They got a law for everything now-hunting, fishing, planting crops. Spew them out like buckshot. A man's got to learn how to duck, nowadays, and roll hisself in a ball and sull up like a possum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South in Ferment | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...walls of her Observatory office. Her textbook, Introduction to Astronomy, used in Astronomy 1, is spiked with apt quotations from classical mythology. As an undergraduate she won a college prize for a "critical essay on the Greek text of the Gospel of St. Matthew." ("It was a sitting duck," she says...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Hitch Your Wagon | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...then he tapped the bottle with a hammer; and glass, water and Kovacs spilled onstage. Curling his lip over his mustache in a saucy moue, he may address himself to a golf ball and wham it squarely into the Cyclops eye of the camera. After a splintering crash, viewers duck, the screen goes dark, a voice purrs: "And let that teach all of you out there to pay attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Utility Expert | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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