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...very heady theorizing about the long, long future. But in 1962 Nixon is going to be under strong pressure to test himself at the polls, and may find it impossible to duck California's gubernatorial race...
...King. Even more devastating is Le Canard Enchaine, a six-page weekly with a circulation of 290,000. Founded during World War I, Le Canard Enchaine (The Chained Duck) is French slang for a censored press. It carries no advertising, makes no profit, and barely pays the salaries of the editors who own it. But its news sources are among Paris' best, and it often manages to print as gossip what more serious journals dare not print as news, is closely watched by politicians and Cabinet ministers for its reflection of the country's temper (at least three...
...this bear garden. Let us act as mediators between these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist ex-M.P. Ian Mikardo shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
Saltonstall still seemed to be amazingly popular with Bostonians, although it is hard to say why. He seems to be a nice enough old duck, without glaring faults or shining virtues. When the motorcade reached the Statler-Hilton, Salty stood unnoticed, without even a police escort, while the crowd mobbed Nixon. Once Nixon was safely inside the hotel, however, the throng feel on the Senator with the affection of a mother for her long-lost son. One beefy fan kept pounding Saltonstall on the back and shouting, "Hey look! It's Salty! How are ya, Salty?" Such is the love...
...Keeshan, who is the enduring star of CBS's Captain Kangaroo). And with them all went a memorable list of supporting figures: Mr. Bluster, the puppet heavy (the children in the audience always booed and hissed); Dilly-Dally, the sad-sack tot; Flubadub, the curious crossbreed with a duck's head, spaniel's ears, giraffe's neck, dachshund's body, seal's flippers, pig's tail and the cat's whiskers...