Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force had decided to drop the preliminary "blue" air raid warning signal, use only the "red" signal (which means duck, the attack is imminent). Reason: the speed of modern bombers. Once bombers were sighted there would be no time for preliminaries, barely time to duck...
...Imperfect Wisdom. For five hours, with the White House turning on the heat and helping to direct the strategy, Minnesota's civil-righteous young Hubert Humphrey, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New York's Herbert Lehman and North Carolina's lame duck Frank Graham took turns lecturing against the bill. Their arguments were a direct paraphrase of Harry Truman's message...
Stepping off the train into a milk-white "duck" (amphibious truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...
...WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction from children and their mothers," might yet live down his bogeyman reputation...
Cult Talk from the Colonel. In all this, Hemingway, at his best one of the few great writers of his generation, gives his admirers almost nothing to cheer about. Occasionally, as when he describes a duck shoot, his writing has flashes of its old, matchless exactness. However thin his story, he keeps it in motion and even invests it with a sense of potential explosion, though the explosion never comes off. The famed Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful...