Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Williams' appointment pad in his dingy Millsboro office is a notation for Nov. 5: "Duck hunting-win or lose." If he wins, he plans to go right on watching the tax collectors, although he thinks it won't be necessary if Ike gets...
...boss of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.'s gun department, Charlie Hunter had long fretted over one big handicap for his customers. Since many of them had no opportunity to practice shooting under actual hunting conditions, they were likely to miss their duck or pheasant when the big chance came. What they really needed, he thought, was a place where they could practice under actual field conditions, thus make every shot count. By last week, after more than eleven years of on & off prodding, Marshall Field had decided Hunter was right. In a $100,000, 192-acre wooded...
Lacking a magic mirror, Dr. Kubie offers physicians a rough test for detecting psychiatric disturbances: "If a patient can use common-sense advice effectively, no more is needed, and our patient cannot have been very ill. When [commonsense advice] rolls off the proverbial duck's back, then that duck is ill, and needs technical help as early as it can be brought to bear...
...business suit which made him seem a dull duck in a nest of full-plumaged drakes, a State Department lawyer named Adrian Fisher told the judges that the French were trying to weld Morocco into their own economy, insisted that the old treaty stands. The French, added Fisher, cannot very well complain that the evils of a money black market in Morocco are hurting France's domestic economy, while tolerating their own black market at home...
...went to work to treat festering skin sores and cure malnutrition-but the marks that did not show were harder to administer to. The blare of bugles blowing reveille scared the Huklings so that they clutched at nurses in fear. The first sight of soldiers in uniform made them duck; they were so disciplined to silence that the slightest shush from a nurse stopped their crying. The girls shrank from dolls, the boys were frightened by toy cars...