Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wooden Birds. Just as in Holland, where Hals and Rembrandt painted citizen companies of harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient...
...Garden City, Kans., flew in the guests.* All day before the ball, fashionable East Side hairdressers fought off nervous breakdowns, and the 16 hosts and hostesses who had volunteered to give pre-ball dinners simmered on the verge of hysteria. Capote and Kay Graham had a quiet little "bird and bottle" picnic supper in his Plaza suite. As the hour for the party approached, Capote's chums became as anxious as he. Said Mrs. Leland Hayward: "We're so dearly fond of Truman, and we were afraid that with all this publicity, the party might flop...
...vote was a disgrace," Stanley Hoffmann, Professor of Government and one of the sponsors of the draft resolution, said yesterday. "A Faculty that votes against the idea of discussing an idea is a strange bird indeed...
...long the wheel turns but the plant no longer sings like a bird. One day the pot that holds the plant falls off a shelf and kills the potter. Free at last? Hardly. His funeral is arranged by the helping Hand...
governments' fiat, no rockets or rackets no ink-stinking papers. I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries...