Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skokholm Island Bird Observatory off Britain's Welsh coast, a pigeon-sized male Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus) was taking his tour of duty on the family nest last week, none the worse for an epic round-trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...
...steps under the Bell Harry tower in the light of Canterbury's great west window. Then, for an hour, in bell-clear tones, they sang a difficult program of religious music: a Gregorian chant, 13th-century motets, a Bach chorale, U.S. Composer Normand Lockwood's The Bird of Moses and a Negro spiritual, Jesus Walked This Lonely Valley. The Smith College Chamber Singers were on their second annual tour of Europe...
Witness Baruch was ready to agree that the rearmament program must guard against "obsolescence" and strive constantly to improve weapons. But concern with this factor-the bird in the bush-seemed to him to be blotting out the need for the U.S. to build up an overwhelming stockpile of guns and ammunition. Such an arsenal, if occasion arose, could supply peoples everywhere on the long Russian border, help pin down the Soviet armies, contribute decisively to the chances for peace...
Like all Communist functionaries who fail the party, Moscow's seductive Dove of Peace was liquidated last week, or at the very least transferred to an obscure post. His place in the forefront of Communist world politics was taken by a frankly swooping bird of prey...
...first report came from Oakland. On the night of Nov. 22, 1896, people on an Alameda streetcar saw a huge "bird-shaped" object with a brilliant light hilts nose. "When first seen," said the Oakland Tribune, "the object seemed to be floating over San Leandro. It shot across the sky in the northwest, then turned quickly and disappeared in the direction of Haywards...