Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welcome to the Harvard Ornithological Club," said the speaker. "I'm the president. "I'll introduce the fellows here so that the new people will know who they are." He paused, then called off or elicited names from the circle of twenty-odd birders (don't call them "bird-watchers") sitting around tables. "We haven't got too much business. Could we have the report on Drumlin Farm...
...seemed that some 30,000 gulls nested on Kent Island, an island in the Bay of Fundy. There also was a bird called the Leach's Petrel, which nested in burrows. "Petrels have a smell," said Jim. "You get down on your knees and smell the entrance to a burrow ... well, it's distinctive. You reach your arm in and if you're lucky you'll find a bird or an egg or both.... We would listen for the call at night. The call is in two parts--well, I'd know it if I heard it again...
...nice Christmas" after cops had sought him for 16 months, Jail Escapee Richard Heinz admitted that he hid out for the entire time in his wife's apartment, left only in the late evening for burglary forays, avoided alerting neighbors by ducking windows, teaching his three children to call him "Cowboy" instead of daddy, hid in a closet whenever cops, sheriff's deputies or the FBI searched the place...
...theatrical pathos which is quite effectively created. If the ethics of success or of religion fail to provide an answer, why a neurotic and selfish youth who wants to push a motorcycle? Donald Berry plays the role in the James Dean fashion that the halting dialogue seems to call for and handles the part with considerable perception and feeling. His wife, sensitively portrayed by Elsa Grieder, keeps him from his chosen profession with all the wiles of a woman and he resents it. Mr. Hargrove seems to be making the artist's old protest that women sap his freedom...
...Yardlings swept the mile, as Wes Hildreth, Gary Brooten, and Wharton Sinkler finished in that order. Dave Donaldson took the two mile, while Art Cahn won the 1000. Dunc Johnson won the weight, while the two-mile relay team of Sinkler, Dave Call, Cahn, nd Hildreth chalked up the only other Yardling...