For the summer, you can have a loose, white-duck cover made to create that English stately-home look.

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The class teaches students to "duck, cover and hold" when the ground starts shaking.

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But, once again, Iran's pragmatists, embarrassed by the latest revelations, have had to duck for cover.

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And they thought all they had to do was duck and cover.

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Buy stocks or duck for cover?

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The shield in Dark Souls serves a similar purpose to duck-and-cover in Gears of War, for instance.

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The duck-and-cover would be much more difficult to pull off in first-person.

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Pre was a brassy Duck freshman when he made the cover in June, 1970.

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Once the first shock is over, insurers may try to duck claims, arguing that they do not cover acts of war.

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Although Worcestershire lost two quick wickets when Matthew Hoggard had Phil Jaques lbw for his second duck of the match and Vikram Solanki was caught at cover off Buck, they recovered to reach the close in a healthy position at 62 - 2.

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"Hilariously, for me, it comes down to the sound of a duck quacking, which is a sound effect that was in my version, used as a bleep noise to cover up an expletive, " Coulton said.

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