Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking down from the U.S. Senate gallery, bird watchers often observe that Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse has a notably ornithic look-a sharp beak, darting, saucerish eyes, a tufted head. Since he became an independent last year, Senator Morse has been the busiest, noisiest jay in the Senate; he interrupts his chatter only to hop over to the press ticker to see what kind of coverage he's getting...
...yard breaststroke--Won by O'Connor, Y; 2, Emerson, H; 3, Douglas, Williams; 4, Bird, Navy; 5, Zani, H. Time 1:00.5 (Pool record...
...yard breast-stroke--won by Douglas, Williams, 2:20.2, O'Connor, Yale; 3, Zani, Harvard, 2:25.4; Bird, Navy; 5, Stuhldreher, Yale; 6, Nay, Navy (disqualified...
...Bismarck? Bismarck?" The interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a gun butt), and once was stood before a firing squad (but that was just a joke: after firing over his head, the Russians roared with laughter...
Marion Price, witty and a good storyteller, complements her husband, who has little small talk and forgets jokes as soon as he hears them. They shoot together at a nearby skeet club, where the dues are a year and members work their own traps; they go bird hunting and like to fish for dolphin off Florida (which they did last week). At home, the Prices and their three sons long had an unwritten rule that nobody would make outside dates on Sunday nights, when they all ate together in front of the fireplace. The sons are now grown, but Lawyer...