Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion's mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain...
Luftwaffe Pilot Müller bumbled like Walt Disney's Dopey. Whenever his Messerschmitt squadron buzzed over the Fifth Army front in Italy, he fluttered on the formation's edge, a lame duck awkwardly trying to join...
Finn MacCool was first & foremost a fighter (he killed Aillin, a goblin who was annoying Ireland) but he also took a little exercise for fun. He could outrun a hare or stag, and he could wing a wild duck with the first stone from his sling. He could jump the width of Ireland (115 miles) in three "leps." Finn once licked two hurling teams singlehanded. They ganged up on him (as hurling players still do) but he killed seven and chased the rest away. Next day he found them swimming. They dared him to come in. Finn drowned them...
...enlarging at least twenty separate collections, ranging from duelling pistols to out-of-the-way specimens of trout flies." Most of the Sousa living-room was given over to a truckload of balsam wood, several barrels of paint. Out of these Father planned one day to fashion his own duck decoys. On the dining-room table stood his favorite Christmas present- joint gift of the family-a bullet-loading machine. Father always slept with one to three loaded revolvers under his pillow, plus spare rounds of ammunition. His own room resembled "a merger between A. G. Spalding and Abercrombie & Fitch...
...Father] was hiding in a clump of bushes . . . much as if he were in a duck blind. . . . Every few minutes he would rise slowly on his knees and, bringing his eyes just above the tops of the plants, peer slyly down the road...