Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardheaded and perceptive, with 28 years of diplomatic experience behind him, Ambassador Grew could read the signs-of Japanese militarism as well as anyone. But many of the princes and politicians with whom he hunted wild duck or played poker seemed anything but barbarians and fools. He determined to work with the moderates, hoping they would regain control over foreign policy...
...Fighter. It was totally unlike Ernie Bevin to duck a slambang, winner-take-all fight. Fighting had been his meat & drink when he rose from farmhand to be an unpaid union secretary, then a big-time Laborite, organizer of the 1926 General Strike, and founder of Britain's biggest independent union, the powerful (850,000 members) Transport and General Workers...
...were running all over the field shouting instructions. Often those trying to help wounded men off the field would have to duck out of the path of a landing glider. . . . We learned lots of lessons...
Short-Order Duck. Such are U.S. scientists' short-order wonders, often telescoping into a few months developments which would normally take five years of research from idea to finished product. Perhaps the best example of how Dr. Bush's group works was its famed amphibian truck, the "Duck." The problem: to produce a 2½-ton truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck...
...months later, OSRD's team had put its Duck into production. The Duck has been invaluable in Pacific landing operations. It can carry 35 to 50 men, plows through heavy surf, drives in & out of steep shell holes...