Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bandy-legged, Ecuador-born Pancho Segura had Jake's number from the first. He covered court like a bird dog in a chicken coop, took the sting out of Kramer's big serve, whacked his own two-handed forehand drives into the far corners and outguessed Kramer in nearly every rally. It was all over in less than an hour. Score: 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Explained a somewhat surprised Kramer: "Pancho knocked me down in the first set and never let me get off the floor." Pancho, who gets only a salary, to Kramer...
...best bird-brained manner, Gracie floundered in malapropisms, clipped the top off a boxwood hedge with George's electric razor, soundly bussed a startled book salesman (so "snoopers" wouldn't catch her talking to a strange man). Using the reliable formula that won them more than 45 million radio listeners, George Burns and Gracie Allen were making their bow on TV with the first in a bimonthly series (Thurs...
...slate-grey and black-barred peregrine falcon (duck hawk) is one of the speediest and most powerful of all flying organisms. It flies on the level at 60 m.p.h., dives at 180, knocks out its quarry (birds up to the size of duck) with its steely talons, kills only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean...
Last week U.S. bird watchers had an eye peeled for the peregrine falcons which were migrating from the northeastern U.S. and Canada to the Gulf states and the Caribbean. But not all were migrating this month. The New York World-Telegram and Sun noted that a very few will winter-as-usual, of all places, high on craggy skyscrapers in Manhattan. There they have found ledges as bare and precipitous as any mountain falcon eyrie. And they have a year-round food supply in the thousands of fat and sassy Manhattan pigeons who linger below...
...others, a deeper flavor of misanthropy seeps through. In one cartoon of this sort, a nurse is simply pushing a pram which is fitted with thick steel bars in front of-whatever is inside. In another, as a man is carried away in the talons of a great bird, his wife runs after him crying, "George! George! Drop the keys...