Word: buzzard
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...Jody is in perpetual seventh heaven except when he is in school. A few days before the pony is ready to ride, it catches pneumonia, sneaks away to die in the woods, where Jody is found beside the corpse, hammering insanely on the long-since smashed head of a buzzard that was too slow to escape his wild grief...
...Wykeham or Henry VIII. Lord Nuffield, who used to run a cycle shop for undergraduates on the High and whose Morris motorcar works in nearby Cowley now make outlying Oxford town resemble a small Detroit, startled Oxford recently by handing over $10,000,000 to realize Sir Farquhar Buzzard's dream of a university medical centre (TIME, Jan. 4). It was also Lord Nuffield who started off the Oxford Appeal in Britain with $500,000. The Cecil Rhodes Trustees promptly pledged another...
...Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole power to originate bills raising revenue. House rules give the sole power to prepare tax bills to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week, therefore, the full Ways & Means Committee sat down to do its constitutional duty. But neither buzzard-bald Chairman Robert L. Doughton nor any of his colleagues were fooled by these solemn delegations of power. They knew that whatever bill they recommended and the House passed would, as always, be rewritten by a captious Senate. This relieved North Carolina's Doughton of much responsibility, more brain work. His chief...
Terrified by the appearance of what she thought was a buzzard at her window, an apartment dweller in Manhattan's West 58th Street one morning last week called police...
Lion's Budget. More of a buzzard than a lion in face and figure, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, is nonetheless the lion of Britain's general election. With his famed "balanced budget" now a symbol of the National Government's successful stewardship, the beak-nosed and scrawny Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke last week as a complacent treasurer who expects soon to float a $1,000,000,000 British rearmament loan without so much as flurrying the market. "There is not a single small country in Europe," Mr. Chamberlain declared, "which did not breathe a sigh...