Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rene Char is a Frenchman with a great, hulking frame (6 ft. 3 in.) and a jaw like a duck press. By almost unanimous consent of his countrymen, he is the greatest French poet of his time. Existentialist Author Albert Camus spoke for the French intelligentsia when he saluted Char as "the great poet for whom we have been waiting." But English-reading people must take a French poetic reputation, like the credentials of ambassadors, largely on trust. In this bilingual sampler of his work, U.S. readers will be able to decide for themselves that measure for measure...
Besley put down his glasses for a moment, then picked them up again. To his surprise he saw the man crawl out of the bushes, stand up, look around furtively, duck back. Then the woman left her chair, walked to a rock about three feet from the thicket. There she sat down again...
Tanned and refreshed after a ten-day rest-and-think vacation at his Duck Island retreat, Secretary of State Dulles went back last week to Washington and to the riddle that has become his No. 1 preoccupation: What is happening in and to Soviet Russia and its empire as destalinization marches forward? Said Dulles, whose interpretations of shifting Soviet events are currently guiding fast-moving U.S. foreign policy: "The forces [for change] that are now working [in Russia] are going to prove to be irresistible...
...Having lived in Europe for the past eighteen months I am prepared to duck from June until September as the thundering herd of tourists (probably quite a few as a result of your article) sweeps through Europe this summer. JAMES M. KYLE Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. c/o Postmaster New York City...
...where President Magsaysay enjoys shaking hands with visitors, tours through the tropical countryside which include a look at native dancing and cockfighting plus a whopping big Filipino meal (a barbecued pig, prawns, coconut ice cream eaten out of a coconut shell). One local delicacy for the daring: balut, a duck egg ready to hatch...