Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other fields, where they thought they were "safe," the Taft forces last week were trying to shake off two small Eisenhower jolts. In a New Orleans primary, Ike's backers won ten of twelve contested seats on the Louisiana Republican Central Committee. The lame-duck committee, led by Taftmen, promptly tried to outlaw the primary on technical grounds, and the fight went to court. In Oklahoma, district conventions began electing the state's 16 delegates to the Republican convention. Five of the first six to be named are Ikemen. Taft Campaign Manager Dave Ingalls rushed into Oklahoma...
Other Ivy League colleges managed to duck the German chaplain controversy that occurred at Harvard last month. Only Columbia had a German alumnus who was killed fighting the Allies, and it followed Harvard's final policy by not honoring the soldier. In addition, Princeton adopted the same exclusion policy as the Harvard Corporation voted in 1944, but no situation came up at Princeton necessitating the use of its exclusion clause...
...Duck Call. In Cleveland, Edward Annen, manager of a linen rental supply firm, glanced at the name and serial number inside a pair of white duck pants a customer had returned by mistake, excitedly telephoned his ex-Seabee son that the pants he lost on Okinawa during the 1945 typhoon had turned...
That, as it happened, was just what little "Ag" had in mind. Unfortunately, she was constructed more on the lines of a young duck than a young swallow, but hour after hour she exercised in her mother's bathroom, gripping the towel rack for her barre, to pull herself into the classic shape...
Bird Lover. In Hamburg, Iowa, someone chopped a hole in the bottom of each of 16 duck hunters' boats...