Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first omens were discouraging. When the train stopped at Emporia for a crew change, Ike's green campaign managers suddenly realized that it was time for the candidate to make a back-platform appearance. Then, to their horror, they discovered that the duck-tailed streamliner had no back platform. Ike spent the first few minutes waving and grinning through the windows at the crowd. A porter struggled with a small door at the rear of the car and finally got it open. Ike stepped to the door and was just reaching down to shake an upstretched hand...
...Belgian National Orchestra 1) a new composition none had ever played before, and 2) a well-practiced concerto of his own choice. This year's new composition, a fiercely atonal concerto by Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement for the decisive test...
...Folsom, chairman of Sawyer's committee. "Wage controls have broken down; there is no evidence of general inflationary pressure." It was put more simply by Council Member Charles E. Wilson, ex-mobilization boss, who had recently been urging continued controls. "The controls program," said Wilson, "is a dead duck...
...this point, pioneer Withington dropped out of the business, although even today the incident follows him. He reports, "I've never been able to duck it, but I certainly don't regret...
...France, only seven restaurants* now rate Michelin's top billing of three stars; 62 rate two stars. One notable change: Paris' famed Tour d'Argent restaurant, where pressed duck has fed thousands of high-spending U.S. and European bons vivants, has lost its three-star rating...