Word: catbird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likes to go duck and quail hunting. At night his wife of 42 years, Josephine, sometimes reads histories, biographies or spy thrillers to him. They have four grown children, two of them lawyers. Powell is invariably soft-spoken and nonflamboyant. Even when, last week, he found himself in the catbird seat...
...pinstripes seemed to be in the catbird seat once Figueroa settled down. After leaving seven men stranded on base in the space of two innings, the Yankees shelled Royal reliever Andy Hassler for two more runs in the bottom of the sixth, making...
After trailing 14-10, Hines's shooting binge eased the Crimson into the catbird seat, 16-14. The Crimson was still treading on velvet when the half closed out with the visitors...
Battle of the Sexes is an odd adaptation. A Peter Sellers movie based nominally on James Thurber's The Catbird Seat, it transports the action from New York to an old-fashioned woolens company in Scotland. Verrry Brrritish...and verrry funny...