Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini was known as a rabid antiCommunist, most Western observers complacently assumed that close Socialist-Communist collaboration was a dead duck...
...rest of the first half saw Boston's eleven fought on almost even terms by the undersized Wentworth club, sparked by two light, swift backs and a seemingly unstoppable dive-duck pass. Stalled once on the visitors' 10-yard line, the Crimson was on defense for most of the second period...
...first two games-but the Man in the Tower is the kind of guy who always aims to do better. At one end of the field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...
...Leonard (11) as errand boys, motherly Mrs. Naylor has sometimes found it hard to pay the rent on their poky brick cottage and feed a family of 17, not to mention the two cats (Monty & Piddly), a mongrel dog, Billy the canary, two pigs, 16 chickens and a duck. Nevertheless, says Mrs. Naylor of her brood: "I wouldn't be without one of them...
...concessions have been made to the bobby sox brigade. Johnson gets too cute at times, much to the brigade's delight, and the slapstick isn't always up to Shavian standards. But you don't have to be a bobby-soxer to enjoy Johnson's plight on his first duck-hunting trip, and constant adult laughter at the many good gags drowned out the most ambitious concerted squeals the soxers could muster last night...