Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stirling's detailed, if often careless book proves her a writer of astonishing vigor, and as rare a bird as any to undergo a biographer's taxidermy...
...Green Bird: a missile that launches and flies perfectly...
...Bird: a missile that fails...
...professional basketball season still had a few games to go last week when the Detroit Pistons' George ("The Bird") Yardley broke one of the brightest records in the game. Helping the Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers, 132-116. the Bird tossed in 49 points, pushed his year's total to a record 1,953. Watching him while he did it was the old titleholder: George Mikan, 33, the great Minneapolis center who held the seven-year-old mark of 1,932. By week's end Yardley had raised his record...
...Bird's closest competitors for scoring honors this season: Syracuse's Dolph Schayes, 1,755, St. Louis' Bob Pettit, 1,644, and Cincinnati's Clyde Lovellette, 1,593. Next to those graceful giants, balding, knob-kneed, bony-shouldered George Yardley, 29, is an improbable-looking champion indeed. When he puts on his basketball uniform he looks like an absent-minded scientist who left home without his trousers. The illusion ends when the game starts. Then the Bird's loose, court-covering lope, his deft shots, his imperturbable balance in under-the-basket brawls, all blend...