Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, 64, announced that he planned to make another trip to the South Pole (after the Korean war is over) to search for coal and uranium deposits...
Although Palestrina's Supplicationes receives top billing on the record, I was most impressed by Byrd's Iustorum Animae. Written for the Feast of All Saints, it was arranged for male voices by Harvard's Professor A. T. Davison. Here is an excellent union of sound and meaning, culminating with the word "mortis," in complete relaxation and immobility. The Glee Club handles the interlocking phrases and constantly shifting melodic lines so skillfully that the general effect is coherent and logical...
Many Senators took a different view. The Senator who had started it all, Virginia's friendly-to-Eisenhower Harry Byrd, grunted that he had "never been so perplexed." Said Vermont's Republican George Aiken: "I don't see how Mr. Wilson ever could act as Secretary of Defense when his own personal interests are tied up with General Motors...
...WENDELL BYRD, 40, Church of God; killed on Oct. 27, 1951, by an anti-personnel mine...
Mike Kulukondis, manager and star passer, was the main cog in the Mower attack. Others outstanding on the championship squad were Guy Barrow, Richard-Corbell, Bruce William,s Don Pfarrer, Bob Byrd, Bob Ogden, and Barry Linde...