Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles a few pence when they decided to play bingo. Di proved lucky, walking off with a set of plastic spoons and forks, just the thing...
Optimistic about overcoming Faculty resistance this rime around students and College officials cited a shared desire to replace the existing network of inefficient lame duck committees with the centralized Undergraduate Council...
...checkers with match sticks on the tiles of the bathroom. "We could never quit," Joe laughs, "because somebody was always behind." Then he stops laughing. "It was unspoken, but we both knew. At practice, if one of us threw a pass that wobbled, the other would quack like a duck. We teased each other into staying friends, but we knew one eventually had to go if the other was ever going to have complete confidence...
...DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite...
...perhaps the squad's finest half of the season, but only managed to hold a 1-0 lead at intermission. Greeley set up the tally with a perfect crossing pass which Larson into the twines. Goals by Landry and Mayer upped the score to 3-1, but after two Duck tallies which sent the encounter into overtime, a Mayer-to-Landry combination proved decisive in the 4-3 Crimson victory...