Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flashing through the sky over Florida one morning last week, a pair of F-86 Sabre jets headed out to sea, engines shrieking at full power. Their fleeing quarry was a huge red "bird" that had shot up 35,000 feet from the Air Force's Guided Missile Test Center at Banana River, leveled off, and sped out over the Atlantic. At top speed, the 670-m.p.h. Sabre jets could barely keep up with it. A few minutes later, the strange race was suddenly over. Radio signals bleeped out from Banana River, and the giant bird dived into...
Among the most significant phenomena at San Francisco last week was one invisible to the naked eye. It was a slow shower of feathers. The Communists' dove of peace, the bird that walks like a bear, had lost most of its plumage...
...that the last the world would see of the raddled bird? Far from it. As the Communists well knew, given a quick laundering, a brush, and a few weeks to grow its feathers back, the peace dove would look as fat and fair as ever to the party faithful and to people of short memory...
Skeet† is trapshooting with frills, designed to make trapshooting as much as possible like game-bird shooting. In skeet's basic 25-shot round, each shooter follows an identical routine: 1) two single shots, from each of the eight field stations, at clay pigeons sprung into the air from each trap house at 70 m.p.h.; 2) double shots from stations 1, 2, 6 and 7, at birds sprung simultaneously, one coming toward him, one going away; 3) an optional shot from any station (bringing the total to 25 and usually taken wherever the gunner misses his first bird...
...last day, Staff Sergeant Glenn W. Van Buren of Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base was tied with four others after a perfect 200-for-200 score in the All Gauge division. He had lost out last year because he missed one bird. But this year he never wavered. When the din and the powder smell had faded away, he had raised his score to 250 out of 250 in the shootoff, to become the first three-time champion (1948, 1949) in National Skeet history...