Word: ducking
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...original series of watercolors has since disappeared, but after Casimir's death in 1633, Birkner set about doing another hunting book as a memorial to the duke. He copied many of his own drawings from the first series, added depictions of lark netting, partridge and duck hunting. For years, this second hunting "book" lay quietly in the library of the Friedenstein castle in Gotha, East Germany. Merrill Lindsay, a Manhattan gun collector, heard about its existence while attending a conference in Rome last year. Lindsay launched what proved to be elaborate negotiations to get the book into the hands...
...Court, 22 were turned down by Congress. President John Tyler had four nominees rejected in two years, Grover Cleveland two in 1894. As for the matter of encroaching on presidential prerogatives, it was just two years ago that Candidate Nixon was successfully arguing that Lyndon Johnson, as a lame duck, ought not exercise his appointment powers by naming Earl Warren's successor...
...futility of the first days in New Hampshire is captured by a shot of McCarthy bowling duck pins while perhaps five people look on with indifference. Several times Kennedy is shown-first denying that he was a candidate, then "reassessing," finally announcing...
...roof so low it will need an awkward duck to make...
...most irritating about Schaap's style is his blatant pandering to a narrow audience. One chapter entiled, "I Like My Girls Blond and My Johnnie Walker Red," is devoted to Namath, the stud, and one can just imagine the segment of America that fancies itself he-man. Schlitz-drinking, duck-shooting and hard-loving smugly saying, "Yeah, goddamn, Namath's one of US, Fcrissake...