Word: hedgerows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...microphone, glowered briefly at his audience, and unleashed a torrent of colorful abuse against all the labor-reform bills now before Congress. The years had left their mark on the old ham: the massive shoulders were stooped, the magnificent mop of hair had turned white, and the hedgerow eyebrows were frosted with grey. But John L. Lewis, now in his 80th year, was the same ferocious old firebreather...
Virginia's hedgerow of statutes against school integration, designed as a model for the South to follow, moved toward the critical test in three cities, all prosperous and relatively moderate on the race issue, all sorely torn between the opposing legal requirements of state and nation. The three...
Nowadays, Graves lives in Ireland, a bearded recluse who insists on privacy. There he has added to his list of subjects the hedgerow ferret, and the fox balled up within itself against winter. But living abroad does not mean he has turned his back on the Northwest. Says Graves: "I have memorized the Northwest so I can use it. It does not crowd me like a new environment. I have it in memory...
...week's end the President was out in the open again, carrying a .410 gauge shotgun along a hedgerow, on the hunt for whatever legal game he might flush. Safely behind rode Grandson David Eisenhower in the pony cart...
Britain has bird watchers for every hedgerow, but most of them do not scratch the surface of the bird world. The closest bird watchers in Britain are the learned Misses Miriam Rothschild and Teresa Clay, who comb the feathers of birds, probe their body openings, search through their nests with microscopes. They are looking for the lice, fleas, ticks, mites, flies, worms and other parasites which swarm over all birds. After many years of study, the Misses Rothschild and Clay have published a lively book, Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos (Collins, London; 21 s.), packed with detailed information about the fascinating...