Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matador is believed to be the latest model of "the bird," the TM-61C with a range of up to 650 miles. Presumably, Chinese soldiers may eventually be trained in the use of the Matador, but its atomic warheads, under standing Defense Department policy, remain solely in control...
...architect of victory in World War II? Churchill? Roosevelt? General Marshall? Eisenhower? None of those guesses hit the mark, according to British Historian Sir Arthur Bryant. His choice is a stooped, round-shouldered retired British officer who looks not unlike a solemn parrot, is addicted to bird watching, and lives quietly with his wife in the gardener's cottage of his estate in Hampshire. Most U.S. readers would stare blankly if asked to identify Field Marshal Alan Brooke, now Lord Alanbrooke. But Bryant's The Turn of the Tide, based on Alanbrooke's wartime diaries, has already...
...Paris. Pale candle flames blossomed on the chestnut trees in the Champs Elysées, and the terrace cafés spread their chairs and tables out across the sidewalks again. Lovers exchanged lilies of the valley, and concierges, in good humor after the winter hibernation, restored their bird cages to outside window ledges. But beneath the soft blue sky, Paris was in torment; the war in Algeria was now like the Indo-China war at its worst. But unlike Indo-China in the days of Dienbienphu, no end, whether in defeat or victory, was within sight in Algeria...
...Lampoon's Ibis disappeared again early Friday morning. The metal bird had been up only since Thursday afternoon. An investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of Thresky's disappearance...
...Court Painter Lu Chi was not only the favorite bird and flower painter of his day, but honorary commander of the Peking secret police as well. Lu Chi's aim was to please the luxurious and conservative official taste of his time, and he succeeded superbly. Grass, Flowers and Wild Birds is a typical example of his work, that for delicacy and refined technique has never been surpassed...