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...sitting duck, the mourning dove is more like a kind of jet-assisted robin. When it takes off from a grainfield, its favorite lunching pad, the wily bird careens like a missile with a faulty guidance system. Like a climbing pheasant or a gliding goose, a dove is best downed by leading it, then firing at the spot where bird and shot should collide. But the dove is an artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood...
...even the best steel and glass boxes. The reason is that the structure is of prestressed concrete. "Steel is prefabricated in rectilinear units, and you have to work with that," says Bunshaft. "With concrete, you have to make your own forms and you can make any form you need." Duck Soup. When Emhart first commissioned SOM, the firm turned out sketches of two-and three-story buildings resting on the ground that seemed uninspired and esthetically wrong. Then Bunshaft did a doodle of a slim rectangle hovering over a curved line, and from this the design began to crystallize...
Since the power of the Democratic Party over the past hundred years has to a large extent rested upon the votes of segregationists in the South, Kennedy could hardly be expected to answer yes. What he did was duck the question by making a neat little speech. "I think that the record of this Administration on this matter of equal opportunity is so well-known to everyone, North and South, that in 1964 there will be no difficulty in identifying the record of the Democratic Administration-what it stands for. And my judgment is, based on history, that the Republican...
...Descartes and Pico della Mirandola," says Harry, proving himself the young man's intellectual peer. This Harry is a versatile man with words as well as ideas. When a street singer ambles past him, he tells the street singer in Anglo-Saxon syllables to go copulate with a duck...
Next day's 18 holes were over almost from the start. An all-night bout with the G.I.s left Palmer weak and weary; on the first tee, he duck-hooked his drive deep into The Country Club's barbed-wire rough. Cupit hung on a bit longer, but the tension caught up with him on the third hole, where he took a double-bogey six. Boros, playing safe, sure "money golf," turned the front nine in 33-two under par. By the time the three players finally got within TV camera range on the 15th hole...