Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launched in London a public subscription in behalf of "our beloved American fellow subjects." Result: he was fined ?200 and clapped into King's Bench prison for a year. The kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered all the last years of his life on the claret drunk on these outings...
...Provost Duck reported that the University will work with Cronin when the time comes...
...slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry (birds up to the size of duck) with its steely talons, kills only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean...
...months before the North Korean invasion. They cite the result of last May's U.N.-observed election, which had filled the National Assembly with an assortment of independents, many of whom were hostile to Rhee. Both in Korea and abroad, Rhee's opponents called him a lame-duck President, declared that his government was discredited. Other observers believe that Rhee's government was just beginning to hit its stride last June and that the Reds attacked when they did because they could not afford to tolerate the example of an effective, popular anti-Communist government in Asia...
Early Frost. But Birds Eye has plenty of competition. There are 1,050 smaller companies whose 500-odd products include frozen clam chowder, gefüllte fish, ready-to-bake biscuits, strawberry shortcake, Chinese egg rolls, cheese blintzes, chicken pie, bullhead fillets, partridge, Australian rabbit, buffalo meat and mallard duck. But the biggest sellers are still staples of the U.S. kitchen, vegetables, fruits and juices...