Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call the Employment Office where Miss Ann McKenna tries to find students to fill the positions. Students registered in the casual job division--about 350--come in between classes to see what sort of jobs are in the offing. So for as casual jobs are concerned, the early bird usually catches the worm...
Vishinsky thanked her, handed the bird to an aide, and marched inside the building. "Are you going to keep my bird?" Anny asked. "Of course I'm keeping it," replied Vishinsky. Anny was taken aback. She was even more chagrined to find herself erroneously identified in Parisian papers next day as a representative of a Communist women's organization. Terribly upset, Anny bought 59 more doves, sent one to each U.N. delegation (except, of course, the Russians). It wasn't the first time a Russian had grabbed a peace dove from the unsuspecting West...
Silent Laughter. Inside the meeting place of the General Assembly, after fondling the ruffled dove for photographers, Andrei Vishinsky gave the bird back to an aide, strode up to the speaker's podium to eat some crow. No one, including his bosses in Moscow, had been much amused by his laughing dismissal of the West's disarmament proposals the week before. In Pravda's account of the speech, the laughed-all-night passage was cut out. Vishinsky prefaced his second try by trying to minimize his first: "I merely made some cursory remarks at the time...
...might guess, it houses an old bachelor. In the sitting room, a hastily thrown coverlet drapes an obviously unmade bed. A litter of books, manuscripts and knick-knacks lines walls and floors like the twigs of a nest. Amiably at home in this cozy mess flutters a rare old bird, the dean of English letters, Edward Morgan Forster...
...here and on ensuing pages grew tired yesterday of the sedentary life middle-age had pressed upon him, and decided to go out on the town to see if he could find a chicken or two to go stepping with. If life begins at 40, said the gay old bird, why not at 41. So down he came, into the city of sin he had watched over for so long, to get a closer view...