Word: buzzard
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...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...
...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...
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