Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never underestimate the power of bird lovers. Last week the management of Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...
...Larry's Folly." Though workers called the project "Larry's Folly," Bell's new interest was helicopters, because "you're like a bird-you can go anywhere you want." By 1946 Bell was in production with its first basic Model 47 helicopter, has since sold more than 1,000. Airman Bell also led the attack on the sound barrier with the stainless-steel, rocket-engined X-1, which blazed to a 967-m.p.h. speed record in 1948. Five years later Bell's improved X-1A topped 1,650 m.p.h. and a 90,000-ft. altitude...
Contrary to recurrent rumors that year, Miss Radcliffe did not receive the Ibis among her prizes. The proper authorities asserted that the sacred bird was in the hands of people reported to have little respect for female pulchritude...
...Roll" and the "Tony Curtis." Their jargon is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang and U.S. jive talk in which a road is a "frog" (from the phrase frog-and-toad, which rhymes with road), a suit is a "whistle" (from whistle-and-flute), and a girl is a "bird...
...Modigliani's life) will appear, and his latest traveling show (of Abstractionist Hans Hofmann) will open at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Typically, Wight feels embarrassed by his varied successes. "Idon't kid myself " he says in his customary murmur, squinting as if at a disappearing bird. "This showing all over the country, or flying all over creation, is not a virtue. It's a symptom of still being too many things to too many relations." It is also, like Wight's paintings, a running struggle to seize man's brief "adventure in time...