Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a flight of eloquence in the House of Commons on the prospect of increased duck production, Sidney Dye, Labor member for Norfolk South-West, last week declared: "Ducks greedily devour wireworms and leather jackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests. It may well be that those who eat the ducks can readily assimilate the robust characteristics of these other creatures. If so, may I commend to His Majesty's Ministers the value of ducks and green peas for a regular place in their diet...
...Matic Maid to reach 400 units a day by month's end. To sell it, he planned to go after the man of the house, not the woman. Says he: "Seventy-four percent* of the men in this country help their wives with the dishes. Now they can duck the job without feeling like heels...
...them; the cereal companies now are attacking from all sides of the container at once. For instance, a single box of Kellogg's Pep offers, for box top and a price, a two-tone beanie, a magno-power '50 Ford ("oh boy--eye-popping thrills"), and a Donald Duck ring which rolls its eyes and opens its mouth when you apply the secret magnetic control (in the form of a miniature Pep box.) And inside amidst the Pep there is a plastic statuette, one of eighteen in a series ranging from football players to broncos rampant...
...Moody Jr. of Galveston. Moody is a wispy, somber oldster who in his 80s dresses always in black, treats men in their 60s as youngsters. He controls banks, newspapers, a large insurance company, vast ranching interests and oil holdings. He has a dead eye for duck shooting, and runs Galveston...
With three minutes to go, Rockwell penetrated a Bruin freeze and sank a driving lay-up to put the varsity ahead, 48 to 47. The varsity then sank a foul and capitalized on the lame duck two minute rule to work into its own freeze, a nicely executed fast criss cross...