Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hinted at his boredom when he told Connecticut's lame duck Senator Bill Benton that the presidential calendar was loaded with speaking engagements up to Jan. 20-and that he was sorry he had accepted so many. A few days later he failed to show up for a luncheon date with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Then, on Armistice Day, he sent Navy Secretary Dan Kimball off to do the presidential honors at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He canceled his regular press conference on the grounds that he had nothing to say, refused...
Meanwhile, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. settled down in his old Senate office in shirtsleeves and white galluses and got to work briefing himself on military and diplomatic matters. While he worked, his aides started to pack his belongings (Lodge as a lame-duck Senator will have to move out in January). Lodge operated a good deal by phone, refused to say with whom he was planning to confer. A few Washington officials waited a little nervously for the phone to ring. Said Michael McDermott, State Department press officer: the department would be "completely at [Senator Lodge's] disposal...
...restored, 200-year-old building which had been converted from a church into a cottage. For the next five days he planned to sleep, lie in the sun, ride, play some tennis ("I'm also an ex-tennis player," he quipped), and hunt duck and deer across the border. When four reporters and two photographers showed up for a press conference two days after his arrival, he was asleep. They waited until he appeared, still looking a little drawn and weary, dressed in a five-gallon hat, sport shirt, blue jeans, brown loafers...
...years old, he fell from the second-story porch of his home near San Francisco and fractured his skull on a concrete courtyard. The injury may or may not have permanently affected his brain, but for most of his life he has acted like an exceedingly odd duck. When he was eleven, he became a devotee of Buddhism; later, a Buddhist priest taught young Provoo to read, write and speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army...
Though her pupils do not realize it, Miss Frances is forever lecturing them. She may teach them to count by showing them a movie of a mother duck ("Now how many babies does the mother have? One . . . two . . . three . . ."), or she may lecture them about putting away their toys. She also slips in tips on good manners, e.g., the telephone: "When the person at the other end wants to talk to someone, we call them, don't we? And we tell mother when we're going to make a call...