Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate elections, the Democratic Party is the clear winner, with a gain of eight seats. Ronald Reagan, a lame duck without any control over Congress, is a big loser...
...Mandarin their names will be pronounced "Mi-lao-shu" and "Tang-lao-ya," but the saucer ears and orange bill will show them unmistakably to be the popular Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Beginning this week, at 6:30 every Sunday evening, the 30-minute "Mickey and Donald" animated cartoon show will be broadcast on China Central Television Network, dubbed in Mandarin. In Peking last week, Disney officials announced that the company would provide the Chinese network with 104 episodes over the next two years. Disney will give the network the show in exchange for selling two minutes...
Remember the duck walk? Or did you savor the split that Michael J. Fox pulled off in the climactic scene of Back to the Future? In the 1950s dawn of rock, rubber-legged Chuck Berry was the man who made music strut 'n' roll. And so when Berry, creator of hits like Maybelline, Johnny B. Goode and Sweet Little Sixteen, turned 60 last week, the pop establishment came out to pay tribute to the grand, gyrating old man. Through two celebratory concerts for 9,000 fans at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, Berry, in a rhinestone, mustard- colored shirt...
...Eddie's charge of selective enforcement. The man to settle it is James Nunez, chief wildlife-and-fisheries enforcement officer for the area. Nunez operates out of the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge near Grand Chenier. The drive there is through marsh country, with egrets and heron everywhere and a duck-hunting dog in every man's yard. The canals are thick with lily pads and anglers, and the talk is of the upcoming opening of teal season. (During the Iranian crisis, it was locally claimed that ten Cajuns could have saved the day if you put them in the desert...
...Many colleges freely dispense guidance tothose beyond their walls, and such guidance is tobe welcomed in a free society; but colleges thataim, as they might put it, to 'lead' society'sconscience on various social problems should not,when faced by a real problem within theircompetence to deal with, duck or throw up theirhands...