Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.E.I. Chief of Staff sat the Japanese Consul General, faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...
...ground everyone except the gun crews takes cover, but everybody watches the sky. Everyone is keyed to the first noise of the bombs ripping through the bright clear sky. They sound like tearing sheets or crackling fire. Then it's time to duck. As you duck you think of what the soldiers say: 'Don't be worried about the bomb that's labeled with your name. The ones to worry about are the ones labeled To Whom it May Concern...
...walks like a duck, runs like a man cut off at the knees. "They didn't charge," said one U.S. officer, describing a Japanese advance, "but crouched forward just a little bit, lifting their knees high in a sort of imitation goosestep. They kept coming forward in pairs, one directly behind the other...
...three Britons could hear suppressed breathing inside. Keyes ran in, firing his pistol. He was met with a volley and fell in the doorway. The sergeant climbed over his body and sprayed the room with gunfire. The Germans fired back. The British captain dashed into the room and yelled "duck." The captain then blew the room apart with two hand grenades. He and the sergeant carried Colonel Keyes's body outside...
Grab Bag. Near Oklahoma City a flock of startled ducks flew into a duck hunter, who grabbed with one hand, bagged a mallard drake alive...