Angela is a Lolita-in-waiting and sets her sights on Lester, a sitting duck for a domestic disaster.
When NFL owners locked out the players ahead of the 2011 season, rookie contracts were a sitting duck.
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"I feel like a sitting duck, that's what I feel every time I get on the train, " she says.
Then, just before impact, Kato pulled out of his dive, turning himself into a sitting duck for the gunners and the Mori sailed on.
The distinction goes to Milton, Mass. (elevation 628 feet), the highest peak within 10 miles of the Atlantic that's a sitting duck for strong ocean breezes.
That includes Father Raftis, who has been harder to reach since he moved to Montana but who, as several players pointed out, is a sitting duck on Sundays.
When she realized she was a sitting duck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Black turned around and found herself directly in the path of the most violent part of the storm.
The children of today, he wrote, were missing out on "falling into ponds, eating poisonous berries, contracting stomach ache from under-ripe stolen apples, getting lost, being bitten by dogs, fighting and starting fires, sitting in cowpats and acquiring bumps the size of a duck egg on their heads".
We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
Like that time in 1990 when Thomas K. Figge got wind of a dozen wooden duck decoys carved by master craftsman Bert Graves that were just sitting, unloved, on the mantel of a funeral home near Bloomington, Ill.
We first met five years ago when I found him sitting regally on a bench having just swooped there from his usual home of Duck Island in the park's lake.
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