Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several Senators, and the five members of an army junta that replaced Rojas and now live in honored retirement. His wealth? Ah, said Rojas, there were a few "presents," received in the spirit given, "whether it was a herd of cows from ranchers of the Ilanos, or a little duck from an unhappy old woman...
...villa, refurbished to match the Ferrers' Beverly Hills mansion. But trouble was far from over. Returning from a trip to Nicaragua, three of the film's technicians were killed when their plane crashed near Managua. This tragedy was followed by a farce, when Director Huston led a duck-shooting party to a mountain lake near Durango. One of the hunters: Audie Murphy, the U.S. Army's most decorated soldier in World War II, and a Texan man of action. When Murphy's hunting companion stood up in their boat to fire, the recoil threw him overboard...
...throw stones," shot back Reuther. He was ready even on a tropical isle with a press release: "Mr. President, I have spent no time on the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico, nor have I been with you and your big business friends on the golf course, the duck blinds or the quail hunts." George Meany, not the thin-skinned sort, tossed off a variation on an old pun: "I haven't seen any of the habitués of the sunny beaches, or the sons of habitues...
...inviting you to a duck dinner," a gluttonous comic-strip character named J. Wellington Wimpy used to say. "You bring the duck...
...private plane between Chicago and Milwaukee, a Chicago businessman took a business call from a customer in Buenos Aires, joining thousands of fast-moving businessmen who have had phones installed in autos, boats, even duck blinds...