Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of days later, accompanied by his wife and his year-old French poodle, Pepe, Dulles headed north to Lake Ontario's Duck Island for his first two-week vacation since joining President Eisenhower's Administration. Duck Island is in Canada, and Dulles has arrangements with the Canadian government that will protect him better than Smith & Wesson No. 242332 from foolish questioners...
...muscular coordination ("Unduly slow movements?"), behavior patterns ("Cheerful?" "Sullen?"), and test behavior ("Restless?" "Fidgets?"). There was talk, too, of "group activity." Explained one psychologist : "We played a finger game called 'Eensy Teensy Spider.' We watched their responses when we said, 'You are now walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny...
...Little Bit Tense. The experts totted up the results. When the returns hit Park Forest mailboxes, the town exploded: 135 children had been flunked. Angry parents stormed the superintendent's office and school-board meetings. What, they wanted to know, had walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny to do with a child's maturity? One mother protested that her son had been rejected simply because he "was a little bit tense...
Pleasure Principle. In Manhattan, Alexander Johnson, 39, carrying a bag of duck eggs home on the subway as a treat for his wife, spied Salesgirl Adrienne Ardizone, 20, sitting opposite in a freshly starched dress, calmly pelted her with raw eggs, said later that he just couldn't explain...
...fashion, but thousands of housewives and businessmen amuse themselves by painting surprisingly competent pictures of vacation scenes. A century ago, landscapes were all the rage with the professionals-but then the hobbyists mainly contented themselves with abstractions such as hooked rugs and patchwork quilts, or semi-abstractions such as duck decoys. Last week the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. staged a 19th-century landscape exhibition called "Artists in the White Mountains" that was bound to draw praise from contemporary amateurs and scorn from fashionably "modern" painters. The pictures were not, on the whole, outstanding, but they showed...