Word: birde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, a ripple of anticipation ran through the waiting crowd. "Here he comes," yelled a photographer-and out stepped a curly-haired Englishman, bound for the most sensational trial Switzerland had seen in years. But the prisoner's names -Donald Hume alias Donald Brown alias John Stephen Bird-were not on the tips of Swiss tongues alone. In Britain, Hume is Scotland Yard's most notorious enemy -and just about the slipperiest the Yard has ever...
When Nixon-for-President men get together in New Hampshire to talk over Richard M. Nixon's prospects in the state's early-bird primary election-the nation's first-next March, they are likely to ask one another, a little worriedly, "How strong is this Dartmouth thing?" The "Dartmouth thing" is the glittering fact that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Dick Nixon's only serious rival for the Republican presidential nomination, is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, which is to New Hampshire what Harvard is to Massachusetts, only more...
...studio commissary ("Cafe de Paris") in Beverly Hills. Khrushchev was welcomed by President Eric Johnston of the Motion Pictures Association, who had visited Khrushchev in Russia, and by 20th Century-Fox President Spyros Skouras. The Premier sat down for lunch between them. Mrs. Khrushchev, carrying a bouquet of bird-of-paradise flowers, sat beside Frank Sinatra, opposite Bob Hope and David Niven. Before them stretched a glittering panorama of jewels, dyed hair and suntans of a Hollywood movie colony so complete that even Eddie. Liz and Debbie were in the same room. Greek-born Spyros Skouras and Khrushchev got into...
...Vanguard was a typical product of U.S. space technology: a small, sophisticated bird strained to the utmost to achieve its purpose. The thrust of its first-stage rocket was only 27,000 Ibs. (v. Lunik's estimated 800,000 Ibs.), and everything in the upper stages had to be meticulously miniaturized to save tiny bits of weight. Its intricately instrumented satellite will send down valuable data from space, perhaps more than the Russians get with their comparative giants, but the U.S. will not match the Russian achievements in bulk or accuracy until a new generation of bigger rockets reaches...
...North Kansas City Bowl has an aviary (with a fulltime, $5,000-a-year bird keeper) and an art gallery, hopes to contribute proceeds from the sale of paintings to local charities...