Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very different to man appear much the same from a louse's point of view. If the birds are infested by similar lice, there is a good chance that they descended from a common ancestor. Certain lice carried by flamingos, for instance, indicate that flamingos are related to ducks and not related to storks. There is not much chance that flamingos recently picked up duck lice. Lice are timid pioneers, and only rarely colonize unfamiliar birds...
...make their own movies, but none carries the hobby as far as Edgar M.(for Monsanto*) Queeny, 53, board chairman of the $221 million Monsanto Chemical Co. In his spare time as an amateur photographer, Queeny spent nine years making 100,000 hard-to-get still shots of wild duck, finally put the best into a 1946 volume called Prairie Wings. Two years ago, with the same perfectionist's zeal, he set about making sound movies of African native and animal life...
...boxer who attacks in flurries, shifts into a weaving defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with a blinding series of rights, lefts and underswung bolo punches that brought the Garden crowd howling to its feet with cries of "Arriba! Arriba...
Married. Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder Cernadas, 32, Georgia-born playgirl of the International Set, who claimed she once almost shot Egypt's King Farouk, "thinkin' he was a duck"; and Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, 33, who fled Poland just before the German invasion in 1939; she for the third time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Dead Ducks. What could the nation make of a leadership that was in a war that it did not fight as a war, in a crisis it did not treat as critical, arguing for preparation that might not prepare in time? Before congressional committees, the Pentagon's top military men discoursed confidently of their forces-not the forces of today, but what they plan to have two years from now. And Mobilizer Charles Wilson was going around announcing that Stalin would be "a dead duck"-if he attacked the U.S. any time after Jan. 1, 1953. In its unintentional...