Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woods. To his contemporaries, Bruegel's art spoke more directly than to the present day. The point of such parables as that of the fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters...
Sounded like the sounds of a dying bird...
Thresky, sacred ibis of a local "humor" magazine, has returned to his perch atop the Lampoon building. The footloose golden bird reappeared upon the Cambridge scene early yesterday morning and issued an immediate statement describing his travels...
...appointed date two weeks ago, the tall bird returned to New Haven and rendezvoused with the owl, and the illicit migration was underway. In New York the two birds got stoned in the Stork Club, but were ejected by Sherman Billingsley when he discovered that Thresky was not a stork. Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland was more hospitable (see cut), but again the tipsy birds were booted when they began squawking and hooting in time with the music...
...IRBM, is in its first production stages. The first operational unit (about 16, by present tables) could be deployed in Europe by the middle of next year. Within two years, a monthly output of 100 Thors is considered feasible at a cost of less than $1,000,000 per bird. The Army Jupiter is an equivalent IRBM weapon-and also a good one. But no production line now exists for the Jupiter; those fired so far were "hand-tooled." i.e., individually assembled. Question still to be resolved: whether to concentrate exclusively on Thor or Jupiter or build both...