Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly hushed. After the royal couple mounted the throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...
...traffic in bird-of-paradise plumes has been internationally banned since 1924, to prevent the extinction of the birds. Learning that Nepal badly needed to replace its worn-out royal plumes, the U.S. shipped over a package of 100 plumes that had been stored in New York City's American Museum of Natural History...
...this spring. He swears he will never come back. As Cervantes said, "Don't look for any birds this year in last year's nest." He's nobody's bird in the hand. He takes his freedom seriously, and doesn't mind getting a little drunk. "One swallow doesn't make a Spring," he remarked last night in Cronin's. "I'm so stoned I feel like two birds...
Perhaps the least prominent of our Bow Street headquarters' many splendid accoutrements is a bird which surveys all the hearty fun both within and without...
...Ibis, the traditional symbol of the The Lampoon, was reported missing Saturday from its long-standing perch atop the magazine's building. University police are investigating the bird's disappearance...