Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock last Sunday morning, however, the coasts had been shed and the ties loosened. In the vestibule of the house there was a fair-sized crowd--some just entering, some just leaving, and some aimlessly bird-dogging--but only those standing nearest to the door noticed the two men and a redhead enter...
...acclaimed at home as his nation's No. 1 worker, No. 1 engine-driver, No. 1 journalist and No. 1 sportsman, won his oddest title yet. The canary breeders of the city of Rosario (pop. 522,000) presented Aviculturist Peron with a pink warbler, a gold medal and bird-seeded him as the Argentine's No. 1 canary breeder...
...current squad are Minnesotans; three of them seniors. Charles Mohlke is president of the student governing body and majors in English, philosophy and political science; Colleen Nelson majors in zoology and music and is a bird watcher by avocation; Joseph Shechtman is a sociology major and the team expert on everything; Eleanor Vaill is a junior majoring in drama and usually has the answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they...
...lusty dances in the priest's parlor under fittingly blue lights. The latter, Salambo, is a messenger dressed something like the Batman. If this trio is expendable, one could also make a case for the deletion of all God's little codgers, including two stuffed donkey's a bird, and someone dressed up as a lion...
...Bites Deep. Voluble as can be when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when...