Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aries. The University will institute 8 o'clock classes as part of the new program of advanced standing. ("it's the early bird. . ." the administration spokesman will say.') After some outspoken words in the University Gazette, William Bentinck-Smith, special assistant to the President, will lead an expedition into the steam tunnels to find the lost Kirkland House maids. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale will move to California for missionary work, thereby quashing rumors that he was to be new dean of the Divinity School...
...made entirely of dots, or squares, or crosshatchings, or Oriental arabesques. Some of his pictures are composed simply of illegible script-foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures of the sort Giacometti and George Grosz were later to employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap, and always with iron control. Klee's demons almost never failed him; he had them under the yoke of wit and taste...
...three-way presidential election in October, Candidate Ramón ("Little Bird") Villeda Morales had won, but he fell short of an absolute majority (TIME, Oct. 25). Under the constitution, that threw the decision to Congress. But when Congress convened, only Villeda Morales' supporters took their seats; his opponents, by heading off the needed quorum of two-thirds, prevented congressional ratification of his election. This left Lozano no choice under the law but to assume the technical powers of a dictator...
...haired intruder in the Sheppard home that July night, and his red clothes don't early have anything to do with those Red Chinese you worry about sometimes. Nor was he the one who forced Hemingway's plane down in the African jungles, disguised as some sort of silly bird...
...have come rolling in, one a minute, so fast that Mrs. Emery is on busier the ever trying to keep the machine clear for new messages. And to make matters worse, she now has to contend with a conglomeration of illegitimate creatures: Bald eagles with brief eases, Salton stall birds, and pink ducks with blue stripes, all reported anonymously. The finishing blow, however, was supplied by the up-to-date machine itself when it collapsed last week under the unnerving load of bird inquiries...