Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps even more surprisingly-the world's reaction turned around the kind of man Dulles was, in a sort of commentary on the timelessness of character. Here was Dulles, devout Presbyterian elder, reading grim-voiced lessons in church. There was Dulles, lover of life, tucked away on Duck Island with wife Janet, reading aloud, or birdwatching, or downing rye on the rocks, or washing pots and pans...
...where an estimated 70,000 are out of work. Just a fortnight ago, a few hundred demonstrators snowballed into a wild march of 15,000 unemployed toward the presidential palace. Only tear gas stopped them short. To prevent similar embarrassment during inauguration week, the lame-duck government banned demonstrations of any kind...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Duck Flies the Coop, a whole hour of Donald's quacked adventures...
...budget has been called political propaganda." the President told newsmen. "Now. I am not running for anything. I am just trying to do my best for America." And in trying to do his best, a lame-duck President -lately berated by Democratic critics for losing his grip and wanting to shrug off responsibilities on Congress (see The Congress) -had managed to frame the first big political issue of 1959 in his own terms...
...both her mother and father, who disapproved of her fast, American-style tunes (which she picked up from records). So Miyoshi took to walking around the house with a bucket on her head to spare her parents the pain of her songs. After she went to bed, she would duck under her covers and go on singing. When her father refused to buy her a piano, she pasted a pattern of paper keys on the dining-room table and practiced anyway...