Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Circus-minded Robert Kerr of Oklahoma found a niche in his political sideshow for others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...
There remains the third source: oil, a sinew of material civilization without which all its machines would cease to function. The great factories producing every kind of goods−all the instruments of land, sea, and air communication; all the weapons of war, from the mechanical bird above the clouds to the submarines beneath the waves−all would cease to function, and rust would overcome every iron part beyond hope of motion or life...
...Mixed Doubles D. Shapere and S. Sale will meet the winner of yesterday's match--finished after the Summer News went to press--in which P. Pratt and K. Hildreth faced T. Tully and D. Bird. Today's final match will begin...
...Mixed Doubles, the week's earlier results include Pratt and Hildreth defeating D. Duslin and P. Marx by forfeit; Tully and Bird defeating F. and M. Keesing (7-5, 5-7, 6-4); and Shapere and Sale defeating S. Frieder and C. Flax...
White Jade in Hong Kong. To most Seattleites, the man behind their "Bird in Art" show is perhaps the rarest bird of all: Millionaire Museum Director Richard E. Fuller, 59, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...