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Word: duckings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coach moved on to his football specialties. His lines surged forward in a duck-walk, then faltered, and broke-Schmitt backpedaled to avoid the onslaught. Only a few duck-waddled back into place; the rest walked with their instructor...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

...before buying their books this year ran afoul of the Coop's policy of Never Be Caught with a Large Inventory. They are still waiting. Other Square bookstores bow to the same doctrine, but their proportion of the required text business is so small they cannot afford to duck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are You Being Helped? | 2/10/1953 | See Source »

...bottom of the rocking bed has a button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of John Kidder | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...prefer a turkey or a duck?" In any event, Bloch was not ready to let the quartet stand alone as the only testament of his 72nd year. After finishing the quartet (in April), he wrote Concerto Grosso No. 2 for Strings and String Quartet (August) a Sinfonia Breve (December) and a brief In Memoriam (also December). At week's end, with an energy that Churchill might applaud, he was off to Rome to hear a revival of his 1910 opera, Macbeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mellowing Modernist | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Bring your own gun for duck hunting, shrimp fishing, crabbing, trolling for King Salmon, jigging for halibut, skiing, hiking, and walking," Rosemary Reilly-Baughm, the school's admissions director, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.E. Alaska University Issues 'Call of the Wild' to Scholars | 1/17/1953 | See Source »

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