Word: ducking
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Woodside explained that much of Cambodian history has been a continual effort to fend off Thai encroachments from the west and Vietnamese advances from the east. "Historically, any Cambodian politician who received Vietnamese aid would eventually be a dead duck in Cambodian politics," he said...
...Bonn summit, he has a Mercedes 450, and his Kremlin garage also holds a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. He has a splendid dacha in Zavidova, 70 miles away from Moscow, equipped with swimming pool and sauna, high-speed boats for dashing along the Volga, and a vast duck and boar-hunting preserve...
Once I told them that we were eating duck. Because they have so little food they didn't believe me. So I held up a duck by its neck so they could see that we really did have some...
...count to get higher." Despite this, Driver does not want to see Nixon impeached, or even implicated further. "I'd prefer to see Nixon kept in office, but with his powers reduced by a more effective Congress," he explains. "We'd have 3½ years of lame-duck drift, that...
...night he saw eleven moons over the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts. Then he saw a huge duck directing traffic at an intersection. Not long after that, Dwayne was walking across his asphalt parking lot when his bad chemicals made the asphalt give way beneath him. He thought he was sinking into a kind of "shallow, rubbery dimple." He climbed from dimple to dimple toward the office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that...