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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Victor Li was a sitting duck in 1996.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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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