Word: ducking
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...Miller been able to duck the rat race, succeed, and yet avoid warm milk diets? By following his own advice--he never even entered...
...hapless underlings in the field, and the press spread his charges far and wide. "There," roared the boss, "sits [Nikifor] Kalchenko, member of the Central Committee, member of the Supreme Soviet, chairman of the council of ministers of the great Ukrainian republic, and sheds water like a duck as if nothing has happened. He has caused great harm to the economy of the great republic." The Central Committee agreed that it was everybody's fault but Nikita's, and sternly resolved to expel from the party all those who dreamed up fake figures to conceal the shortfall...
...Indian smoke signals, arrives for the date two hours late-too late to do anything but tool over to a drive-in theater. They settle down for some heavy necking, only to find that they are parked beside their mutual laundryman, who is peering at them curiously. Terrified, they duck their heads, scramble for the keys, bump heads, accidentally hit the horn-which sticks. Two minutes later, the whole drive-in audience is straining angrily to get a glare at them as they hastily back out. So it goes, at tryst after assignation after rendezvous, until finally in sheer exhaustion...
...more. He and his wife live alone (his two children are married) in a ten-room Tudor-style house in Summit, N.J., and have a 30-acre farm 25 miles outside Baton Rouge. There he changes pace from his favorite sport, golf (in the 90s), gets in some duck shooting in the nearby marshes...
...Duck with Moxie. Jackie took pains to study and analyze each member of the Kennedy family. Once, in Palm Beach, she was 15 minutes late to lunch with her father-in-law. "That can be fatal with Joe when he's in one of his Emperor Augustus moods," says Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who was present. "So when she came in, he started to give her the needle, but she gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories...