Word: bluebird
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...together Victory at Sea at NBC, went to Rome last April. He found a trove of early footage in Italian archives, but government officials refused to let any of it out of the country. Instead, he dug valuable old clips out of French newsreel files. And, like the bluebird of happiness, the best footage he had seen in Rome turned up in copies back in Manhattan, where a search unearthed a Fascist documentary shot in the late '205 with a script by Benito Mussolini himself...
...engine of his Bluebird speedboat whining at a frightening pitch, Donald Campbell streaked over Coniston Water, a banana-shaped sliver of England's Lake District, at 286 m.p.h., dropped to a modest clip on the return run, but averaged 225.63 m.p.h., to break his own world's record of 216.02 m.p.h. set last November at Lake Mead...
Eddie : My child, my child, it is true, the earth is round, And for a long time I have searched for the bluebird in the world...
...this is true, the bluebird, where in the world...
Moments later, the dockers flashed the news: on his outbound run he averaged 215.08 m.p.h. over the measured kilometer; homebound, he did 189.57 m.p.h. -for an official average of 202.32 mph Said Campbell quietly: "Bluebird was not all out by a very long way. She ought to be able to go quite a bit faster...