Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head jerks; he listens anxiously for voices from corners; under cabbage leaves on his plate he slyly hides pieces of meat he thinks have been poisoned. His only game is darts. He hurls the dart violently; then, when collecting his darts from the board, he is apt to duck, dodge, cower-expecting someone to throw a dart into his back...
Today Harry Ruby, one of Hollywood's busiest men, has shifted most of his attention from songwriting to comedy scripts, has turned out such slap-happy scenarios as the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Eddie Cantor's The Kid from Spain...
...night after the Fourth of July. The little town of Duck Hill lay quiet in the hot dark of the North Mississippi hills. Suddenly rifle fire crashed out. Bullets hit the watertower and the post office, ripped into homes. As lights flashed on, the volleys grew ragged and firing ceased. There was only frightening quiet...
...trouble at Duck Hill had the historic elements of race friction: Southern Negroes quartered close in a Southern camp. On the Fourth, some Negro troopers in Starkville to the east were roughly treated. At Camp McCain, resentment smoldered. Next night hot heads grabbed their Garands, broke into a supply house, crammed their pockets with cartridges, set out for Starkville, some 70 miles away. At Duck Hill their weariness equaled their anger. They took up a position along the Illinois Central tracks, shot away their anger with their ammunition, retreated when the lights came...
...talk was mainly of deflection and approach angles. Deflection is what a duck hunter calls "lead": the aim ahead of a moving target. Guns are fixed, the plane itself must be aimed. The plane and its target are both moving fast (sometimes one-sixth the speed of the bullets fired.) The whole process must be automatic. Said Joe Foss: "When you're in a fight you've got to think of shooting and nothing else. If you have to think about flying . . . well, you get killed." About deflection: "Best way to get a Jap fighter is to shoot...