Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was too much for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, the Armed Services subcommittee's most dogged bird dog. "That is a very remarkable thing," Byrd exploded. "We are going into a war, and we permit somebody to say that that war is going to end on a certain date, and then the procurement department does not prepare for the war and the chiefs of staff are not consulted ... Is that the way the Department of Defense is run, where a vital question of war is to be determined by somebody else other than the chiefs of staff...
...daily CRIMSON had passed off the bird on the Russians in a straight-faced ceremony on Monday...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 24--A representative of the Harvard humor magazine, the Lampoon, get the bird today from soviet United Nations delegate Semyou Konstantinovich Tsarapkin...
...bird had been foisted on the Russians as the American version of Picas so's peace dove by the Lampoon's rival campus publication, the daily CRIMSON. Gentle spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humor to Tsarapkin at his Park Ave. headquarters...
...Russians yesterday received a detailed letter from John M. Updike, Lampoon president, explaining the gift of the bird and, after much confusion, agreed to the return--with minor reservations...