Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning. At Cape Canaveral this week, missilemen were busy at launching pads and hangars, preparing for two new moon shoots: a second by the Air Force, set for next month; another by the Army, before year's end. Beyond that lay plans for still another new space bird, whose job it will be to map the entire earth. In the fast-maturing age of missilery, a world of new wonders was in the making...
Still, the news of the deviation did not dim the achievement. The all-important fact was that the bird had plumbed the black beyond, had climbed to unheard-of heights, and what was more, was reporting its voluminous findings...
...whose only secret all creation sings spring !may- everywhere's here (with a low high low and the bird on the bough) how?why #151;we never we know (so kiss me)shy sweet eagerly my most dear
...nine metal spheres gleaming in the daytime and flashing tiny lights at night, the Atomium dominates the Fair. The architecture, too, smacks of modernity and the future. One building looks like a great stone bird; another has a corrugated wall; the roof of the United Nations exhibit hall is a half-sphere. A few of the national pavilions deviate from the functional scheme--Thailand has a charming gilded pagoda; Italy a stucco villa. But for the most part, all the catchwords of the 20th century can describe the Fair--futuristic, atomic-age, electronic, Cinemascopic...
...hour) operational aircraft. Never before deployed outside the U.S., the Starfighters were knocked down and flown into Formosa unassembled two weeks ago; last week they were already flying over the Formosa Strait. Said one pilot: "It must have scared the pants off the Reds when they saw this bird move across their radar screens the first time...