Word: goldfinch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detail or anecdote that would humanize each Bishop of Rome for our readers. Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar, took special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison. The ascetic Pope Pius XII allowed a pet goldfinch, named Gretel, to perch on his arm each morning as he shaved. And on busy days in his office, the formal Pope Paul VI often doffed his cassock and worked in shirtsleeves...
...light of the Governor's destructive environmental plans for the beautiful state of Washington, wouldn't it have been more appropriate to picture her not as a goldfinch perched near an unspoiled shore but rather as a vulture poised menacingly in a dark wood, or as an oil-coated mallard struggling in a polluted ocean...
...depict Dixy Lee Ray as a charming, inoffensive goldfinch is singularly inappropriate. A better choice would have been a grizzly bear-and with a sore...
...hoped someone would put the goldfinch back in the cage...