Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article, "City Bird" [TIME, April 10], interested me very much, but I beg to differ with you in your reason why our English sparrow has decreased so noticeably in number. You're in the right church but the wrong...
...read the Labor government's budget for 1950-51. Boyishly, Cripps slapped his battered red leather dispatch case onto the table, grinned as he began a long review of Britain's economic position. He spoke steadily for two hours and 17 minutes, pausing only twice for bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads were nodding. Winston Churchill fidgeted fretfully, first slumping down in his seat, then drawing himself bolt upright to peer dully...
...birds keep turning up here at the TIME & LIFE Building in the wake of our book, Strictly for the Birds, which I told you about recently. The business of miscalling our feathered friends has now been advanced, or retarded, by such additions to the aviary as the Blue Funk, the Lesser Evil, the Involuntary Flinch and, heaven protect us, the Working Gull. There have been many requests for additional copies of the bird book, and we are fulfilling them as long as the supply lasts...
...Tough Bird, Still...
...third time that my demise has been reported in the public prints. For the benefit of those who may not rejoice that I have departed on the last Great Expedition, I repeat my words as reported in TIME two years ago: "I'm a tough old bird. The next time, it will be a rumor...