Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bird became a major issue in the fight, with friends and enemies taking sides, and candidates switching opinions as the tide turned daily. A candidate dressed as an owl one day and appeared with an axe the next...
...soon saw that the eagle, though roused, was still a muddled bird. Truman's action on Formosa did not mean all that it could have meant. The U.S. still had had no change of heart toward the Chinese Nationalists; it would still refuse to cooperate with the only Asiatic force that had steadfastly recognized and resisted the predatory league of Mao & Stalin. Washington obviously persevered in the opinion that Secretary Dean Acheson expressed last January: "No one in his right mind . . . suggests that . . . the Nationalist government fell because it was confronted by overwhelming military force . . . Chiang Kai-shek...
...Next day the solemn powwow was held. "The land where the Chavantes live now is far from the land where the Chavante ancestors are buried," Chief Apoena said. "We ask the powerful strangers for pledges that we shall not be molested here." Apoena was also troubled about "the great bird which flies without moving its wings." Would such birds come often? Mereiles, through his interpreter, said they probably would, but never as enemies. Then Apoena suggested that one day he would like to send what he had "most inside of himself," i.e., one of his sons, to see the chief...
...clock mounted on a chariot drawn along the mantelpiece by galloping gilt horses, or a monkey with a lorgnette in one hand and a tiny cigar in the other, smoking with bestial relish, or a dueling pistol which, with a pull of the trigger, released a tiny singing bird...
...Leghorn, Italy ship chandler (who named him Athos after Dumas' musketeer), Menaboni collected birds as a child. "When I flunked an exam at school," he recalls, "father would set them all free and I'd have to start collecting over again." He worked his way to the U.S. on a freighter, made a precarious living painting everything from birthday candles to murals until his bird pictures caught on twelve years ago. Now, at 55, he has more work than he can handle. Sure of his talent though he is, Menaboni swoops on praise as voraciously as the next...