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Word: birde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flailing gleefully away, they pictured drab city blocks as tumbled lines of bulging, squeezed-in houses, and landscapes as great, uncluttered spaces dotted with trees and Indian tepees. Their figures were frightening and funny by turns-glowering, batlike adults with burning eyes, or sad, dough-faced creatures with bird-thin legs and toothless smiles. The colors were as exuberant as the designs: heads in chartreuse and grey, faces that were half yellow, half blue, with startling vermilion circles under the eyes. One of the favorites was a group project: a huge mural of Charlestown with all the details, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting for Fun | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Ibis heatedly denied charges by his former associates, The Harvard Lampoon, Inc., of 1 Bird St., that he had been abducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Prexy Abducted; Bird Spurns 'Poon | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...that was almost bearable," he continued. "But when they told me they were going to vast me for their annual dinner, that was the last straw. 'Roast Ibis.' Ugh," he shuddered. "Imagine it--eaten like an ordinary bird. For soup, they were planning to have 'Ibis bisque...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Prexy Abducted; Bird Spurns 'Poon | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

...article's author, Milton S. Gwirtman '54, last night denied knowledge of the bird's whereabouts, claiming that "The review was set in type long before the lbis left. I am sure that my associates and students will back me up when I say that I have never introduced political beliefs into the classroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upset Updike Wants the Bird | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

Despite, the expert opinion offered by ornithologists, some of the society's members were inclined to blame the CRIMSON for aiding in the bird's escape. They pointed out that on the morning the bird disappeared, an article in the paper referred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upset Updike Wants the Bird | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

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