Word: beaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unhappy, eagle wings and beak...
...beauty, you would not have looked twice. What she had to advantage was hair, wondrous chestnut, something like an October leaf in the northern climate, yet when she faced you there was only a long face, oily, with eyes two small periwinkles, something like a parrot's beak for nose, and that huge ridiculous chin copied from a wrestler's photograph...
...verge of becoming a nuclear power. By think there will be either new nuclear powers demanding or resisting invitations to the conference. France is only the first second-class power to realize that the nuclear weapon is the ultimate equalizer, and to adopt this dangerous route beak to the summit...
About the only person who did not offer an opinion was the Dicky-bird himself. He was on holiday with his princess, spreading his feathers to the Antigua sun, waiting to shoulder his new duties next month. And keeping his beak shut...
...thicket of Steinbergian curlicues. Through a repetition of designs, the author-illustrator opens a child's eyes to the similes and metaphors of nature, the recurring likenesses that link man and animal in the great chain of being. "A triangle is the wing on a flea/ And the beak on a bird/ If you'll just look and see . . . A bandit's bandanna/ An admiral's hat/ And in case you don't know it/ The nose...