Word: osprey
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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...
...first ships held up was the Black Osprey of the Black Diamond Lines, bound from New York to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President...
Bald eagles feed chiefly on carrion. Occasionally they snatch up water fowl, rabbits, fawns or lambs, or make the smarer, smaller osprey their catspaw for a fish diet. There is no authenticated case-even in Spring, when hungry eaglets are yammering in the eyries-of a bald eagle attacking the young of the animal who has made him National Bird...
Less fortunate than the Wildwood osprey were the grackles of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Lacking a mediator, these birds, noisy, gregarious, were last week slaughtered in hundreds by police shotguns to please Mount Vernon slugabeds...
...observation train, which usually appears only at Yale races, was on hand, covered with bunting and ribbons. Columbia's color seemed to predominate, but Harvard cheering seemed louder and heartier than that of her New York rivals. All the New London steamboats, too, were there-the Manhansettel, the Osprey and the Cecile-besides two or three steam yachts all prepared to follow the boats over the course...