Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave's beach, The bird's wood...
Most startling was the case of the prothonotary warbler. Chambers remembered that Hiss's hobby was bird watching, and that Hiss had once told him he had seen a prothonotary warbler. Hiss was asked if he had ever seen one. He said he had, and the incident fitted well with Chambers' previous testimony. This was the turning point of the Hiss case. From then on, most of the committee members were convinced that Hiss was lying. After Chambers had produced the microfilms of State Department documents from his famed pumpkin and the Justice Department was fighting with...
...commentators had also profited from their experiences at the Republican Convention. They were a lot less talkative and a lot more informative,* particularly the bird-dogging floor reporters with walkie-talkies, who frequently were able to funnel the news out before the delegates themselves were informed. The convention standout: ABC's tenacious Martin Agronsky, who developed a knack for catching delegates eager to report the results of their most recent caucus...
...over the U.S., magazine readers will see this month a full-page advertisement filled with close-set type and headed "The Land of Unborn Babies." After describing the scene from Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, in which the unborn await the stork, the copy comes down to earth: "Thousands of babies die needlessly every year . . . The ground has hardly been broken for the nation's only safe foundation-healthy babies-each of whom must have its rightful heritage-an Even Chance-a healthy body...
...died before they were a year old. Countless other children perished before reaching school age or their teens. Through its ads and booklets on child care, Metropolitan Life set out to change this dismal picture and give every child "a clean, healthful home, where the Blue Bird of Happiness dwells." There is no way of knowing how many child lives the campaign has saved, for Metropolitan has acted as an ally of the medical profession in these matters, but today the death rate for infants under one year has been slashed to 28 per thousand...