Word: buzzard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Foreign Office official, Stevenson came out of the war a lieutenant commander and took his first newspaper job pedaling a bicycle on rural news beats for England's weekly Leighton Buzzard Beds and Bucks Observer. He had worked his way up to Fleet Street by 1948, when he moved to Canada. The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman. Then he joined the Star. In 1949 his first self-invented foreign assignment took him to Yugoslavia to check up on 3,000 Yugoslav immigrants who had left Canada for Tito's Marxist paradise...
There used to be a saying to the effect that "England never surrenders." Now, just look at those English ladies kissing Malenkov in your April 2 picture-even Judas Iscariot would have hesitated to buss that buzzard...
...five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise or distaste...
...widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when the match depends on it is no more keyed up than the birder who trains his binoculars on a soaring raptor, trying by wishful thinking to turn a turkey vulture ("buzzard") into a golden eagle...
With Audubon in Arkansas Sir: ... It was with some shock and disgust that I read in your June 21 issue the appellation, "John McClellan, the old Arkansas buzzard." I do not know Senator McClellan . . . except what I have seen and heard . . . during the McCarthy hearings...