Word: quacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History Goes "Quack, Quack." Through the summer, in bullbat sessions and public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. . . ." A New Zealand delegate, W. J. Jordan, was similarly annoyed. He snapped: "I'm sick of listening to 'quack, quack, quack' hour after hour...
...West could find propaganda answers to Russian propaganda; 2) that Byrnes had been right in his insistence that the small nations be heard, and 3) that Byrnes could be just as stubborn as Molotov. The Paris Conference was boring, but it marked the turning of the Russian tide. That "quack, quack" turned out to be the voice of history...
...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...Vancouver, where 150 vets had moved into the old Vancouver Hotel last January, 13 squatter families were in their second week at Little Mountain Army barracks. They petitioned Ottawa "to quit quack-quack-quacking on housing . . . start building decent low-cost housing...
...policeman) sailed into the Russian delegates' interminable speeches and innumerable objections which he called "blasted old rot." "Up to now," he said, "we have got no chairman. We are just a mob. I want to see something done in my lifetime. . . I'm sick of listening to quack, quack, quack, hour after hour. . . Let's get on to work. That's what the people expect...