Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil War newspaperman often deserved the generals' righteous wrath. Efficient security censorship was at first unknown, and reporters gave away more military secrets to the enemy than a flock of spies. A typical dispatch from Illinois in the Chicago Tribune in 1861: "Our forces at Bird's Point now consist of the following regiments . . . [the] Eleventh Illinois . . . Twelfth Illinois . . . Eighteenth Illinois . . . also 17 pieces of artillery, consisting of six 24-pound siege guns, three 24-pound howitzers, two 12-pound howitzers and six 6-pound brass pieces." In October 1861, a New York Tribune correspondent in Missouri wrote...
...editors of the Harvard daily newspaper have voted to present a large ornamental bird to Ambassador Vishinsky for use on the spire of Moscow University...
...weird, heron-like copper bird he was getting. "Tell me, what does it symbolize?" he asked. "Oh," replied the Harvardmen, "it's a sort of American peace dove." "Well," said Tsarapkin, "it is a very fine gift. Peace be with you and yours...
Next day the Crimson trumpeted the news. In a straight-faced story, it solemnly reported that its old campus rival, the Lampoon, had given the Russians its ibis, the sacred bird that has stood on the Lampoon roof for 43 years-off & on. But as everyone knew, it was all a hoax, perpetrated by the Crimson itself. Cried one Lampoon staffer, as he entered negotiations to get his bird back: "The Crimson men have no imagination. This was just addleheaded vandalism...
...mysterious fire started in the lounge upstairs open only to varsity crew members. Firemen claimed that the blaze was started by a cigarette, but the coaches naturally refused to believe that any crew member would smoke, especially in sacred territory. They maintained that a nest-building bird flew in with the lighted Lucky...