Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That evening, after a festive duck dinner, Willkie drove through rainy streets strung with orange & red Chinese lanterns to the railway station. There one of the luxury trains of pre-war North China, shunted four years ago to this tiny railway, had been polished, clean-sheeted and made ready for the party. The train chugged as far toward the front as was safe. At midnight it stopped on a siding...
Chungking made itself ready. The Official guest bungalow, bright as its rhododendrons, was equipped with a powerful radio, a cook who could range from ham & eggs to Szechwan duck, and-another great luxury for China-soft toilet paper. But Wendell Willkie would only have to look out of his windows to see the great ridges packed with colorless shacks where Chungking's hundreds of thousands were enduring their sixth year...
...Donald Derby Davis gave up a plan for duck hunting in Canada and flew to Washington to begin struggling with the most difficult problems that plague a Washington newcomer-telephones and secretaries-bolstering his morale the while with the cheerless thought that "you cannot ignore such a call...
Expected to follow in the tradition set by "First Cruise," classbook for the entering naval unit, the forthcoming publication will feature cartoons by Walt Disney depicting Donald Duck dressed as a typical student officer, undergoing the various rigors and trials of indoctrinal training. Pictures of each student will appear in the book, as well as descriptions of an indoctrinee's life...
...arouse no vast enthusiasm", he said. America is fighting for "another chance to give democracy a serious trial," Rocking said. And this freedom which we speak about "goes for America, for China, and also for India. This nation's greatest contribution to the world, according to him, is a "duck's back for shedding cynicism," and an ability to make idealism work...