Word: crows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garden to accept a Thanksgiving turkey from the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board. Eying the 40-lb. Iowa gobbler, he quipped: "I wasn't quite sure what I would eat for Thanksgiving, but I'm glad it's turkey and not crow...
...disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning headlines in 1950 when he wrote the opinion outlawing Jim Crow dining cars (the Negro table behind the curtain) on Southern railroads, one of the modern court's first major anti-segregation decisions...
...politicians down to the Klansman next door. Snopeses pop up early in Yoknapatawpha County, but unlike most other Faulkner characters they seem to have no ancestors-at least not from Mississippi. Flem's father, the vicious Ab Snopes, wore neither blue uniform nor grey, but was a carrion crow on Civil War battlefields...
...crow with a submachine...
...were flown by the Russian crew to Paanchkhal to inspect the 70-mile road being built by Red Chinese engineers from Katmandu to the Tibetan border town of Kodari, where it connects with another highway leading to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Thousands of Nepalese workers using picks, shovels and crow bars are carving the road from the sheer slopes of mist-hung mountain passes. Chinese instructors patiently show the Nepalese how to operate rock drills while other Chinese clear away rocks and dirt with bulldozers; still others are busily surveying and mapping every hill and valley in a country ideally...