Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty. The forest bird is his only Venetian-blind moment, though if one has mastered a sort of scooping motion, one can manage a few slats while Brünnhilde ho-yo-to-hoes . . . Parsifal makes me want to sit down...
...military intelligence had received reports of launchings, from land and sea, of Soviet test missiles. Beyond what the Kremlin announced, the U.S. knew that late last spring the U.S.S.R. had test-fired between four and six long-range ballistic missiles. The U.S. also knew that the big Red bird announced last week had not flown 5,000 miles but 3,500. The Kremlin announcement left unanswered a whole series of important questions: How many years will Russian industry need to make the missile an operational weapon? What kind of warhead has Russian technology produced for the bird? How precise...
...success of their bird over the Air Force's Thor, more ambitiously designed but so far unsuccessfully flown, Army scientists produced a letter carried through space in the Jupiter's nose, jubilantly sent it off to the addressee, Research Boss Medaris, who read it and stuck it in his blouse pocket without revealing its text. Where they had previously conceded that the new mating of Thor and Jupiter might conceivably be called "Thorpiter." Army scientists now were claiming more credit, joked that they would settle for nothing less than "Thupiter...
Little Caesar. Giving orders in New York gangdom was one unwieldy bird named Antonio Corallo, known to cronies and cops as Tony Ducks-a title bestowed in praise of his ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony Ducks keeps no bank accounts, buys no property in his own name, often meets his confederates at 5 a.m. (to avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into...
...shabby, bird-faced man stood silently before Federal Judge Matthew Abruzzo in Brooklyn's U.S. District Court as he was arraigned, occasionally rubbed the handcuffs on his wrists, momentarily allowed his faded blue eyes to show a flash of animation as his gaze darted about the courtroom. Alert U.S. deputy marshals hovered close by, and outside the courtroom shirtsleeved FBI men patrolled the corridors. The U.S. had a valuable catch to protect: the prisoner at the bar was Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55. Moscow-born colonel of Soviet intelligence, and possibly the most important Soviet spy ever caught...