Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...places and gasped at the low cut dresses of pre-Will Hays days, our hearts went out to Mother Marx, who, patiently and understandingly reared and molded four heterogeneous scions into a quartet of the laugh-makingest zanies ever to be rolled onto the American scene. The scene is "Duck Soup...
...Duck Talk. The word was passed, "Thirty minutes to go." Around the world ordinary men & women, who would be the casualties in an atomic war, bent their heads and cupped their ears to radio sets to catch this preview...
...history's fourth explosion of nature's fissionable elements, this time a precise, scientific evaluation of the bomb's destructive force applied to naval surface craft riding "dead duck" at close anchorage, three ships went down, a fourth was missing and 32 others were scorched, set afire or twisted in hull or superstructure...
...comics were hit first. Outgrowing the moppet market, they had tapped a ready-made public: the soldiers loved them. At the peak, when anything from Supersnipe to Super Duck would move, sales had hit 40 million a month. Now they were down to 27 million, and still skidding. War-born pulps were going begging, too. One firm, whose stable of magazines goes up & down at the drop of a dime, had dumped 64 titles (Green Mask Comics, Sleepy Time Stories, etc.). But buyers still had some 1,200 titles to choose from...
...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...