Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important of Crosby's attributes, for as he admits himself, even a limited critical insight can recognize the ridiculous aspects of radio and television. And with commercials, soap operas, and give-away shows, any reviewer finds Sitting Duck the staple fare of networks and channels...
Crosby is outstanding because his highly literate humour makes the sitting duck a worthwhile prey. Pleasing the victims of radio and T.V. with far more than the public expression of their private irritation, Crosby budgeons the asinine with genuine artistry. He attacks script cliches with quiet exasperation, and the patently foolish with deadly understatement. The charm of Crosby's style is that you never feel the reins of his restraint. With no pretense of detachment, his approach is utterly personal. Amusement, annoyance, and occasionally wrath all find expression in a relaxed conversational tone. With this combination of wit and ease...
...banks of the Charles our far-famed social franquility went to the winds as we gorged like men half starved on salad pilled high with thousand island dressing, reast beef of noticeable circumference and the ever present blessing of unlimited milk. Our months water even ever today's duck on least...
...left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross's business...
...surgeon general of the U.S. Navy combines two professions: he is both an officer and a doctor. Last week Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh laid aside his delicate medical instruments, loaded his heaviest rifles with armor-piercing shells and fired a broadside at doctors & dentists who try to duck service in the armed forces...