Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave them were minute and terrifying. As soon as he died a calabash of palm wine was to be broken in the yard of his hut. Then in Eyobélé's open grave a white cockerel was to be beheaded and released. If the headless, fluttering bird flew out of the grave it was well: the dead man was on his way to the upper regions. But if the bird stayed in the grave, the dying kani darkly warned, it would be better for the people of Bokouélé that they lived somewhere else...
...Health to report "a patient under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys at a smaller farm near Scappoose, 250 died...
...people powers not otherwise delegated to the Federal Government. Tested against that provision alone, it is possible that more than 30% of the treaties made by the U.S. since 1789 might be ruled invalid. Our basic treaties of friendship and commerce, our consular conventions, extradition treaties, migratory bird treaties, road traffic conventions and narcotics control treaties might run afoul of the new wording. In any event, their validity might be put under a cloud for a number of years. These treaties are the lifeblood of our relationships with other friendly nations. They deal-and must continue to deal-with matters...
...trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace," remembers a Montreal businessman who went along. "He nearly killed us." Until recently, Pop used to jazz up meetings of the Red Bird Ski Club (which he helped to found) by standing on his head on the dinner table. "He'd do it still," says a Red Bird official, "if we didn't forbid...
...John Thomson is a first class bird dog; furthermore he is an idiot. Contending that Republican speakers would be dragged over the coals by a left wing organization goes against the fact that the Forum has had trouble finding members to oppose the resolution against recognition of Red China," charged George M. Fredrickson '56, past president of the Harvard Debate Council...