Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last colonial claim on the African continent except for breakaway Rhodesia, Sobhuza's tiny (pop. 390,000), verdant land has waited patiently for its cut of independence. Last week a smiling King Sobhuza, surrounded by some 100 of his wives and dressed in a ceremonial headdress of lourie-bird feathers, a girdle of lion and leopard skins and a cloak made of oxtails, had his patience rewarded. British Commonwealth Secretary George Thompson handed Sobhuza the formal instruments of self-government, and Swaziland became the 28th independent member of the British Commonwealth...
...Johnson gone to Chicago, his 60th birthday would have been celebrated in Soldier Field (capacity: 77,000). Instead, he had coffee and cake at Daughter Luci's red brick ranch-style house in suburban Austin, Texas. Lady Bird and Grandson Lyn were there, as well as two busloads of newsmen. "I am not talking to the convention," he told the reporters, lest he be accused of stage-managing the affair. "I don't have anyone reporting to me other than Walter Cronkite...
...later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like the boatload of hippies who put to sea from Boston last year with only a homing pigeon for communication. When the weather turned bad, the hippies released the bird. Eventually they were rescued off the New Jersey coast...
...word that Harry Truman revived briefly in 1952. According to Truman, a snollygoster was a son of a bitch - in other words, a politician. It is probably related to snallygaster, which is derived from the German schnelle Geister, or "quick spirits." In Maryland, the snallygaster is a mythical bird of prey that feeds on unwary poultry and children. In 1895, a Georgia editor described a snollygoster as "a fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or principles, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnancy." The word may be obsolete...
...University of London and joined the London police force to assuage his social conscience. After a few days on the beat, Peter meets a carefree pusher named Quince (Jack Watson), his two sadistic sons, a detective with a badge for a heart (Jeremy Kemp), and a libidinous bird named Fred (Susan George). Soon he's up to his jug ears in trouble. Quince wants to fix him, the detective wants to corrupt him, and Fred just plain wants...