Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, as spring came again to Russia, Moscow's sprawling Kotelnikovsky Bird Market was once more achatter with chittering demands for freedom. Russian shoppers dug deep into their jeans for the three rubles (75?) it cost to watch a caged bird soaring freely once more...
...quick way to get out of the movie business, but this time the borrower is René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million), a man as skillful with pictures as Pascal was with ideas. The result is a wonderfully natty little reductio ad absurdum-"all bird," as one observer put it, "and no stuffing...
...same time a genial atmosphere provides solid ground for a variety of interests. Lowell men may walk off with the lion's share of the academic honors each year, but there are four hundred men in the House, and they do everything from mountain climbing and rowing to bird watching...
Some call Winthrop the home of the Crimson athlete, and they say that a Puritan scholar is a rare bird. This is a gross exaggeration. They are partially right, however, if they acknowledge that while a Winthrop man is known sooner for his letter sweater than for his letter grades the majority of Winthrop's athletes are good students...
From Raisins to Baked Ham. By starting time, they numbered 37 in all-newsmen, photographers, a radio broadcaster (who made tape recordings of birdcalls and water sounds along the way) and newsreel cameramen, as well as bird watchers and nature lovers of every hue and stripe. The Justice, an oldtime Western mountain climber, set a brisk pace. Despite wet brush and the fact that the old canal path was washed out in sections, the motley group seemed to enjoy itself...