Word: albatrosses
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...political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
...Robinson Crusoe is not the only literary offspring of the Juan Fernández. In 1719, a mariner aboard the English privateer Speedwell shot a black albatross. Seven months later, the Speedwell was wrecked on Más-a-Tierra's rocky shore. On that episode Samuel Taylor Coleridge based the shooting of the albatross in The Rime oj the Ancient Mariner...
...What Sort Big Dornkey?" The sights and sounds of civilization brought murmurs of comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...
According to Professor Rice, the home of the penguin and the albatross "would be a pleasant place to spend a vacation," and while shivering New Englanders await the advent of spring, he tells us that the summer temperature of the unexplored continent "often rises above freezing...
...Albatross & Wild Goat. "The wild life was sport, too-the six-inch penguins, flightless cormorants, pelicans, flamingos. At night, albatross dueled with their bills. The wild goats did the policing, ate all the waste paper...