Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much you Americans help us. It depends on whether you give us the supplies we need." Mr. Chang does not expect that the U.S. will give China's Central Government all it needs to subdue the Communists militarily. Neither do U.S. military men in China. They expect to duck out as quickly as possible and go home. If they do, the U.S. must admit a great failure...
Game Bird. In Houston, duck-hungry Stanley J. Bonner was shot in the knee, by a duck which collided with his pistol hand...
...seventh and final game of the World Series, Hal Newhouser's left-handed pitching finally paid off: Detroit 9, Chicago 3. Now Manager Steve O'Neill of the Champion Tigers could turn his mind to duck-shooting. The Cubs' Charlie Grimm, saying, "Well, I ain't gonna hang myself," headed for his Robertsville, Mo. farm to chop wood and raise horses. Their managerial hangover from the World Series orgy would soon be over, but the 21 assorted records their clubs had set would last a while. Some of the records...
...lovey-dovey stuff or you can give 'em the old one-two. Red Lewis gives 'em the old one-two. So they give him $500,000. That's just sound business practice. Maybe Lewis wasn't so dumb after all. He certainly knew where the duck was going to fall...
From the first, Mowrer had the feeling -not widely shared by far-off U.S. editors -that Europe was a real and important place. He dutifully interviewed Chicagoans who came to play in Paris, learned to duck when they wanted a French-speaking guide to the brothels. In 1911, he got excited by Italy's war on Turkey, but when his editors did not share his excitement, "I wrote a furious poem in blank verse, denouncing the peoples of the Western world for [their] complacency. . . . With men killing each other in the desert, I got a request to pick...