Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joseph E. Brown took the memorable part of Polo Joe, an allergic equestrian, in a 1936 pursuit cinema, he probably set polo back 10 years. The late conflict finished the job, and for five years the erstwhile diversion of Tibetan bandits has been as extinct as the Fiji dodo bird...
Hefty, healthy Dorothy ("Dodo") Bundy wore down Britain's left-handed Kay Stammers Menzies, 32, not the player she once was but still the prettiest thing on the courts. Freckled, pudgy Margaret Osborne, a hard hitter, and Louise Brough (rhymes with rough), a big doe-eyed blonde, inseparable off the courts, were unbeatable as a doubles team. Best of the California four: hard-driving Pauline ("Bobby") Betz...
...late, famed dodo bird died of stupidity sometime in the 17th Century. A clumsy, pigeon-like groundling, larger than a turkey, the dodo lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Life in that restricted world was so safe and so easy that the dodo became defenseless. With the arrival of settlers on Mauritius, the birds were slaughtered by man & beast. The dodo's flesh was tough and tasteless and it might have survived in spite of its dim-witted clumsiness-but pigs smashed the eggs and monkeys ate the young...
Last week Washington's Smithsonian Institution proudly announced completion of a postwar project: a new reconstruction of the dodo, a rare item in U.S. museums. Smithsonian curators were sure that their newest version, made in almost equal parts of old bones, guttapercha, historical data and imagination, is the most complete and accurate reconstruction...
...World War II the battleship was the dodo. In the next war-if there "is one-:the heavy bomber will probably be. For the heavy bomber is finished as the main striking instrument...