Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Skinner has found that ordinary park pigeons make good subjects. He took one bird, in fact, right off his window sill; the pigeon can play ping-pong as well as the best of the breed...
...came to grips with an insurmountable problem: a cat, addressing dogs, does not dare speak like a dog for fear he will be accused of imitating an Airedale, and dare not speak like a cat for fear of annihilation. There is only one recourse-a dry, neutral marsh-bird tone...
Everybody agreed that the bird showed military dash throughout. After perching at an approximate parade rest itself for five minutes ("about 20 minutes," insisted Hughes later), it took off as the corps was dismissed, made a brief dive-bombing run on a bald-headed civilian in the grandstand, and then flapped away...
Since Drummer Hughes was at parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...
...also bringing surveying equipment for the Institute of Geographical Exploration, bird catching equipment for the American Museum of Natural History, and measuring devices for the International Glacier Survey...