Word: auk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watchers, it was almost as if John James Audubon had been exposed as a forger or the American eagle reclassified as a turkey vulture. In fact, the American Ornithologists' Union, the Vatican of bird watching, has come perilously close to such heresy. A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow-rumped warbler), the red-shafted, yellow-shafted...
...officially as "endangered species." They range from the black-footed ferret, which roams the Dakotas, to Bachman's warbler, which flits through the swamps of the Southeast. In recent years, as the Government made it official policy to save these creatures from going the way of the great auk, the news of threatened extinction has slowly changed to news of survival. Some of the latest developments...
...changed since then. Women have been members of the staff and executive boards for nearly twenty years. Dress and decorum have loosened up a little. The Crimson medal has gone the way of the Great Auk...
...changed since then. Women have been members of the staff and executive boards for nearly twenty years. Dress and decorum have loosened up a little. The Crimson medal has gone the way of the Great Auk...
...authentic wit. A prisoner in black tie and dinner jacket (Harry Rigby) gazes at the dogs and whines: "What am I doing here? I'm a penguin." As he dies, his final dream is of a formal party complete with glacial ice cubes and attended by the great auk of Manhattan nightlife, Julius Monk...