Word: beak
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These spectators are a sultry, mercifully drawn set: a restive wife, her sullen husband; his aged, beak-nosed, naïvé father, dreaming of youth in India; his delicate old aunt, cherishing a crucifix between her bony hands; an assortment of eligible neighbors. The pageant they have come to see is a half-talented, half-parodied hodgepodge which in actual performance would have been sad, silly, and typically British, but which, in Mrs. Woolf's hairline contexts, is moving...
Chief Terrorist was beak-nosed General Heinrich von Stulpnagel, German commander of Occupied France, ably and professionally supported by veteran French and Nazi police. Early-bird Parisians were puzzled by public notices announcing tem porary closing of the quartier's important subway stations. The entire Xle Arron dissement was surrounded by German troops. They began arresting people whole sale. The victims were supposed to be Jews, but this was not the Jewish district of Paris. In a house-to-house, room-by-room roundup, soldiers seized every "Jew" aged 17 to 50, bundled 6,000 off to nearby concentration...
...lived in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. A small, dark, dapper man, with horn-rimmed glasses and big beak nose anchored by a full mustache, he might have passed as a Hollywood executive, a clothing manufacturer or a prosperous refugee. Few would have spotted him for what he really...
Myadestes, less embarrassed, opened its beak and began to warble to a whir of clockwork which sounded like distant thunder. All day, weekdays and Sundays, with an audience or without, the obliging bird repeated its performance every hour on the hour...
...that was not enough. Sculptor Milles wanted the bird in his statue to move and sing. With the help of engineers from Rockefeller Center's Museum of Science and Industry, he contrived a clockwork mechanism to make the bird flap its wings, sashay back & forth, and open its beak, and a phonograph mechanism to play a record of bird-like music...