Word: osprey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly Husband Pough began a systematic prowl through Manhattan's stores and warehouses. He picked up feathers of 40 species of wild birds, including the whistling swan, osprey. great blue heron. A dozen firms sold plumage of the American bald eagle, although it is protected by act of Congress. Great stocks of foreign plumage-from Siberian storks, Philippine pelicans, Argentine rheas-drifted in through customs loopholes...
They fought with elemental fierceness. The lair was threatened. They captured heights by making draft animals of themselves. Even the women dragged cannon behind them. In charges the hairy evzones came screaming, their white skirts flapping like osprey wings. There was no thought -as there often was among the Italians -for personal safety. One young Greek aviator, out of ammunition, flew his plane smack into an Italian plane...