Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a quick inspection of his duck pond (pop. 37 mallards, three wooden ducks), Ike summoned a strange-looking vehicle that looked like a cross between a jeep and a surrey. Over its open top was a fringed canopy; the words "Ike" and "Mamie" were painted on the front fenders. The car, a little Crosley, was presented to Ike a year ago by an anonymous friend for use as a golf buggy. But it proved too big for golf, on a field test at Burning Tree, and was retired to the farm. Ike climbed aboard, was driven to another barn...
...have bothered Shaw. If he could not find a controversial subject in the concert hall, he got one from outside. He took for granted that a music column was just the place for discussions of a Dickens novel, the French Revolution, the paintings of Tintoretto, Ibsen's Wild Duck, the salaries of bishops. "Musical criticisms," wrote he, "like sermons, are of low average quality simply because they are never discussed or contradicted." What 20th century music needs, among other things, is more sermons like Preacher Shaw...
...will blow this stump of my finger off." Said the air commodore: "If you do it, don't make a bloody mess." Upshot was that Wintle was clapped into the Tower of London, where the admiring Scots Guards on duty plied him with whisky, cigars, and duck in aspic. But Wintle refused to let them clean his boots and uniform. "Much as I admire the Guards," he said coldly, "I do not feel they quite understand how to look after a cavalry officer...
...Administration, which would take over most of the work of Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration. Having no man in mind, John Foster Dulles turned over the search for the policy-making executive to his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., and five days later headed north for a Duck Island vacation...
...business has been more tightly cartelized than the watch industry, whose three basic cartels 1) fix prices for export, 2) require makers and assemblers to buy their parts at fixed rates, and 3) prescribe minimum profit margins for members of 25%. A special policing committee checks on firms that duck the complex rules and regulations, slaps fines of up to $25,000 on violators...