Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Falco peregrinus anatum, a duck hawk or maybe two duck hawks, will be as inviolable as last year's owl, Chief Alvin R. Randall of the University Police promised last night...
Ludlow Griscom, Research Ornithologist, agreed with Randall that the Yard pigeons had little or nothing to fear-as a general group, that is. There are less than 50 duck hawks between Labrador and Massachusetts, Griscom said, and as for pigeons, "why they multiply almost to the fourth power...
...Labor's taste of triumph soon soured. At week's end, the Tories chalked up another win in a by-election in Moss Side, a constituency in Manchester. This reduced Labor's overall majority in Parliament to six. If the Laborites did not start eating duck dinners in earnest, they might find that the menu had been changed to crow...
...standard Soviet privacy surrounds Malenkov's personal life. If he does not drink heavily, he obviously eats well; a favorite snack is French pastry. He smokes an expensive brand of Russian cigarettes, Northern Palmyras. Despite his Kremlin pallor, he likes fresh air. He goes duck hunting in the marshes outside Moscow. He rates a suburban villa on the Mozhaisk Road, a bulletproof limousine, and an armored-car escort...
...Iowa farm boy, Stan Talbott had a slick way of convincing roadside customers that he sold only freshly laid eggs. Stan would duck into the henhouse where he kept his ready-packaged eggs, push the hens about to make them cackle, and presently reappear with the eggs carefully sprinkled with pillow feathers...