Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fiume and Zara, was engaged. At one stage both Pola and Zara hung white sheets over their sides to indicate surrender. Barham blew the destroyers Vincenzo Gioberti (1,729 tons, 4.7-in. guns) and the Maestrale (1,449 tons, 4.7-in. guns) to bits as they tried to duck into smoke screens...
...before the Senate came an amendment to the Navy appropriation bill (already passed by the House) which was after Mr. Wallace's own heart: to permit the U. S. Navy to buy canned beef from South America. At the moment the amendment was introduced, Mr. Wallace was eating duck with some Senator guests in a Senate dining room. He has been making it a dutiful point to lunch with groups of Senators in order to get acquainted. His guests excused themselves to step into the chamber and vote. There seemed little need for Mr. Wallace to go; his place...
...guests drifted back, reported that the vote seemed to be going for South American beef. Mr. Wallace continued to chew his duck complacently...
...TIME, June 24), Upton Sinclair's attempt at a fictional history of the 20th Century. That assignment would be tough enough to paralyze the soul of the greatest artist, the profoundest analyst, whom the 20th Century could produce. To Upton Sinclair, who is neither, it is so much duck soup. There are and will be far more important treatments of the theme; but it is unlikely that any will be more easily written-or read...
...Sept. 1, 1914 at 9:32 a.m. (Central Standard Time) in the Cincinnati Zoo died the last passenger pigeon on earth. In March 1932 on Martha's Vineyard died the last heath hen. In the autumn of 1875 the last Labrador duck was shot on Long Island. Last week a half-dozen other U. S. birds were in danger of extinction...