Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zoologists Hubert Frings and Joseph Jumber of Pennsylvania State College observed that starlings have a special "distress call." Sneaking into a barn one winter night, the researchers caught a starling that was sheltering there and held it up by its feet. The bird gave a piercing shriek, and the other starlings fled from the barn. When the trick worked well in several barns, Frings and Jumber caught more starlings and made them shriek their distress calls into a tape recorder...
Last week McCarthy won what appeared to be a big victory. But all along, McCarthy's ship has been trailed by its own kind of albatross, a bird called "McCarthy's methods." His albatross has brought him big headlines, but it has also brought him bitter criticism. This week, as a result of his methods in his battle with the Army, the G.O.P. high command was plotting ways to take away some of his steam...
...Bird Dogs. Florida's agriculture has kept pace with its industry. In the center of the state, citrus groves were heavy last week with the biggest crop in history (an estimated 130 million boxes). The "bird dogs," i.e., the middlemen in the industry, sent radio-directed trucks speeding from grove to grove, lining up likely buys. Not long ago, such a huge crop would have meant vast surpluses, and the dumping of millions of bushels of fruit into Florida's lakes and rivers. But "this year, almost every orange and grapefruit will be sold at good prices...
Faust stands in contrast to the vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble...
...there is a certain element of the community that seems blatantly confident that Spring will come this year. We speak of the Radcliffe girl who cagerly scans the course catalogue, of the young men who plan to install a new freshly-cast bronzes bird atop a malformed Bow Street building, of the Square merchants lifting cord jackets form cardboard crates, and of a certain set of enthusiastic undergraduates who are sure they can talk a large mob into attending a so called all-college weekend...