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Word: buzzard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans were hurt, the Democrats were probably helped. They made the most of their tactical position wherein they had nothing to lose by demanding all the facts. During lunch-hour recesses, John McClellan, the old Arkansas buzzard, whispered and joked on the Senate floor with the coach, Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Few Scars | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...Lopez (QB); 18, Molloy (QB); 19, Fortunate (HB); 20, Banks (HB); 21, Pruett (HB); 24, Poole (HB); 25, Buss (HB); 39, Jones (FB); 40, Morgan (HB); 42, Mathlas (FB); 50, Hopewell (C); 52, Coker (C); 55, Malloy (C); 60, Phillips (RG); 64, Beers (LG); 65, Golden (RG); 66, Buzzard (RG); 67, Hawkins (LG); 69, Johnson (RG); 70, Lovejoy (LT); 71, Shulman (LT); 73, Catlin (LT); 74, Tarasovic (LT); 75, Gallaway (RT); 77, Henderson (RT); 78, Koplow (LT); 80, Hansen (LE); 82, Campbell (RE); 84, Lemire (RE); 85, Scott (LE); 86, Schainman (LE); 87, Smith (LE); 88, Rene (RE); 89, Gilfillan...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Strong Harvard Eleven Meets Favored Yale In Seventieth Anniversary of Series Today | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

...kicked, beaten and marched off. At each village, they were turned over to the civilians to be beaten further. The heat and thirst became maddening: "Rice paddies are fertilized with human excreta, but we drank, drank deep, and dipped our burning heads in the stinking water. A shaggy, dusty buzzard dropped not six feet away from me and resumed the meal the pilots of the United Nations had interrupted. Under his claws were the remains of an American sergeant. We marched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enemy Is Like This | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...summer weekends, the professor loads his family into a Trinidad red suburban and heads for Buzzard's Bay on Cape Cod. While keeping an eye out for lane-roving Massachusetts drivers, he sings a rumbling bass in quartet harmony with his wife and two older children...

Author: By Byron R. Wifn, | Title: So Little Time | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

...eldest member of the Cheever family is tied to la buoy in Buzzard's Bay. She is a fifteen foot Hereshoff sailboat which first tasted sak water in 1898. confessing to a great sentimental attachment for the skiff, Cheever doubts that he'll ever give it up. "I guess I'm sort of like an auto enthusiast with an antique...

Author: By Byron R. Wifn, | Title: So Little Time | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

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