Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Toohy suspects an organized gang of perpetrating the Harkness thefts. "They hang around the area, and when our policemen go past, they duck into rooms and swipe stuff," he said...
...plastic boat drawing less than two feet of water when loaded to its five-ton capacity has been built for the Army by the Englander Co. Constructed in bolted sections, the craft can be taken apart for air shipment. The 1½-in.-thick hull of resin-treated cotton duck sandwiched between layers of Fiberglas is five times stronger than steel of equal thickness, only a fourth as heavy...
...Premier Chou En-lai himself welcomed them at the Peking Pavilion of Purple Light, launching a round of banqueting, toast-drinking and speechmaking that lasted for 19 days. In Peking's sweltering heat, the Laborites downed innumerable toasts, consumed huge quantities of shark fins, lotus root and roasted duck skin, amid a continuous flutter of fans. At banquets, Chou linked arms with
...they are in the world's habits from necking to nose-rubbing, the scholars have yet to figure out why the native women pierce their lips at girlhood, then put increasingly bigger straw and wood plugs in the holes to stretch their lips until they protrude like duck bills...
...inroads of civilization and the disintegration of the ancestral myths have made "duck-billing" a dying custom. Only a few elderly believers are still alive. Even they have shown a tendency to go mod ern; instead of the old wooden plugs, the Fali women are turning to plastic lip plugs, preferably colored bright...