And they thought all they had to do was duck and cover.
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The good stuff--dryish, refined, compulsively drinkable--has nothing to do with cold duck or cough-medicine-y, five bucks a pop, small "c" "champagne": Different grapes, different process, a whole different mind-set.
For years after, whenever I stopped in Delhi on assignment, the High Commission would politely ask me if I'd decided what to do with Ronnie's duck guns, which the great man had left at our diplomatic mission, presumably because he felt the fearsome Indian customs officers might create such a fuss his own exit might be delayed.
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We can memorize that you use the sound "duck" to make people think of a duck, and we do it quickly and copiously.
Once the first shock is over, insurers may try to duck claims, arguing that they do not cover acts of war.
This is not to say that lame-duck sessions by nature can't do big things.
I'd always preferred duck to chicken and turkey (and still do by a miracle mile).
There is just no rational reason to think that lift will be any easier in the next Congress than in the current lame duck Congress, where our elected officials are supposedly more free to do the right thing, freed from electoral consequences.
In Spain national elections do not have to be held until next March, but Prime Minister Zapatero is a lame duck.
Bereft of its duck girl, its voodoo priest and countless other unusuals, New Orleans will have to make do with a three-guitar-playing man in the role of most eccentric character.
"When Majority Leader Harry Reid asked me if I thought the treaty could be considered in the lame-duck session, I replied I did not think so, given the combination of other work Congress must do and the complex and unresolved issues related to START and modernization, " Mr. Kyl said in a statement.
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