Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrate its admission to the Stadium, the ruggers have arranged for the track team to run the Bird Handicap Mile between halves. The race, which is open to all members of the track team, will be started by Olympic champion Tom Courtney...
Prison Is a Treat. When he got to New Guinea, he reported that the natives are utterly baffled when they are jailed for wrongdoing: "Prison is a treat. They get three square meals a day and interesting work to do." One slide showed a long-legged white bird that had flown aboard his ship on Trafalgar Day. "We called him Horatio," said Philip. "I must confess I still don't know what sort of bird it was.'' At one point he played a record of some pidgin English. "It is a very old language," he explained...
...LACROSSE MISSILE, U.S. Army's surface-to-surface bird designed to carry a nuclear or conventional warhead about ten miles for close ground support, is going into large-scale production by Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin. Missile and truck launcher can be airdropped to troops, will probably be delivered to Army units by summer...
Space Is No Problem. "The part of the flight that doesn't worry me is the flight through space," says the chief watcher of the Bird, Air Force Major General Bernard Adolf Schriever, as he ponders the long-range meanings of the test flight he cannot acknowledge publicly. "The problems occur at both ends...
...patronizing vulgarity with which Capra jazzed up the lesson threw a blight on scientific footage that, in itself, was as good as anything of its kind ever televised. Especially effective in color, these sequences showed a pounding human heart, the hearts of a turtle, a rabbit and a bird, and the passage of blood, a corpuscle at a time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries...