Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talkative bird is the Australian cockatoo (katkatoö), who so nearly resembles the Australian politico on the hustings that cartoonists often represent the one by the other. Last month, facing up to their fifth general election in six years, Australians wearily resigned themselves to a prolonged burst of cockatoo talk, and the sight of sulphurous crests raised in simulated alarm and indignation over the state of the nation. What they got instead was a beak-and-claw fight that made the political feathers fly as they had not done for a decade...
...breakdown shows that 164 jets and 237 propeller-driven aircraft were involved in the accidents. Twenty-three of the jet collisions were classified as "major accidents," and at least one was fatal. This occurred when a bird crashed through the windshield of a Republic F-84, stunning the pilot and sending his aircraft spinning to earth. Bird-caused accidents to jets rose from eleven in 1950, twelve in 1951, to 48 in 1954, 27 in the first six moths of 1955. Some have resulted from birds' nests being built overnight in the air scoops...
...Using falcons to patrol airstrips. Rejected because bird lovers might protest...
...until Professor Ford got air photos from Army engineers. By 500 B.C., says Ford in Natural History, thousands of Indians or pre-Indians were living at Poverty Point in a carefully laid-out city. They honored their gods by building enormous temple mounds vaguely in the shape of a bird. Six concentric octagons of different-colored soil showed up on the air photos; on closer examination, they turned out to be low ridges, laid out like city streets around a central plaza. The ridges look like defensive works, but Ford thinks they were built for people to live on. Their...
...those of tribes that lived in Northern Asia several thousand years ago. So Ford thinks that Asians crossed the Bering Strait before the time of Homer and eventually reached Louisiana. They may have conquered the primitives, imposed their religion upon them and forced them to build temples honoring a bird...