Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba's ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista disclosed a recent meeting with a bird of his own feather. Now enjoying uneasy asylum in the Dominican Republic, Batista was strolling along Ciudad Trujillo's seafronting Avenida George Washington, minding his own business, when who should come along, astride a motor scooter, but Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, also on the lam. According to Batista, they chatted about no counterrevolutions, just the weather and other pleasantries. Observed Batista: "Perón has got a good sense of humor and he was very friendly...
...Minneapolis Moran's bird failed to sing. Minneapolis Tribune City Editor Robert T. Smith puckishly printed a straight-faced story that ran through a whole catalogue of cars without using the one word that Moran was trying to get into print-Lark. Smith's story...
...Tribune book reviews on his typewriter. Mrs. Engle ironed incessantly (so that she could strike while it was hot), Mary lectured on insects and entertained with some Bach piano selections ("They didn't like it, so they made me stop"), and Sara foresightedly hid some scissors in a bird cage. Finally the upstaged crooks trussed up all four in plastic clothesline and departed in Poet Engle's clothing and his station wagon. The Engles quickly freed themselves, and both fugitives were rounded up next day. Complained their involuntary host: "They were completely devoid of a sense of humor...
...operation is that they have remained unidentified to their bosses-until this week. But the Citizen had long suspected that its own employees were involved. "I know that some of my men contribute to it," growled Citizen Editor Don E. Weaver last week. "And it's a dirty bird that fouls its own nest." For all the fact that Grove and Franken have often criticized real Citizen shortcomings, Editor Weaver may have a point...
...sound will decrease, and so will the fuel's burning rate. If the valve is manipulated efficiently by some pressure-sensing instrument, it will keep the hot gas inside the rocket at constant pressure from take-off to burnout. Rocket walls can be made lighter, and the bird itself will fly higher...