Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird-Watcher Atkinson is better known for other distinctions. As the influential theater critic of the New York Times, he has as much to do with a Broadway play's success or failure as any living man. He has been a foreign correspondent in China, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his dispatches from Moscow. But like one of his own intellectual heroes, Henry Thoreau, Atkinson is happiest close to nature or working with his hands. Ask his religion and he answers: "Transcendentalist...
...Communist menace is stronger and more dangerous than the Nazi fifth column in the U.S. during World War II. For every card-carrying Commie, Hoover guessed, there are ten fellow travelers who would help the party when called. About 14,000 of the most active Reds have been bird-banded and marked down for quick arrest in the event of a national emergency...
...Britain, where craftsmanlike novelists are almost as common as rooks at a mowing, careful readers watch for a rarer bird-the writer of first-rate short stories. In 1932 a fine specimen came along. James Stern, a young Irishman, published some stories about South Africa, where he had lived for a while, in a book called The Heartless Land. In 1938 he brought out another collection, Something Wrong. British critics had high praise for both volumes; only the first was published in the U.S., in a small edition. Said Author Christopher Isherwood: "James Stern is, as far as I know...
...more than a million dollars annually. With the efficiency of an underground boxing commission, "the syndicate" coordinates matches in "mains" (bigtime cockpits) at Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Monterey, Visalia and El Centro, issues guides to lesser known pits in vineyards nearby. It also keeps tabs on championships, betting odds and bird prices, buys off the law when...
...heart of the festivities lay in action. A world bird, made of wire, was released by two attendants and it made its home in the pronged structure. And when that was done a committee headed by Thomas A. Leherer 4G, a teaching fellow in Mathematics, transplanted six world trees in the shadow of the master construction...