Word: pheasants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sitting duck, the mourning dove is more like a kind of jet-assisted robin. When it takes off from a grainfield, its favorite lunching pad, the wily bird careens like a missile with a faulty guidance system. Like a climbing pheasant or a gliding goose, a dove is best downed by leading it, then firing at the spot where bird and shot should collide. But the dove is an artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood...
...favorite wife. "When banqueting with him," wrote G.B.S., "she caught fire and was burned to ashes before she could be extinguished. The prince took in the situation at once. 'Sweep up your missus,' he said to his weeping staff, 'and bring in the roast pheasant.' " Shaw, whose pheasant consisted of a $600,000 trust fund from his wife, went so far as to say that he could never have been married to anyone else. Who else, for that matter, could have stayed married for 45 years to G.B.S...
...speech that would break the news to the nation that night. The order went out to round up congressional leaders-wherever they were-and fly them back to Washington. The Air Force brought House Speaker John McCormack from his home in Boston, House Republican Leader Charles Halleck from a pheasant-hunting trip in South Dakota, Senate Minority...
...mightily and came out with the sound of Muzak, a record-breaking advance ticket sale of $2,000,000 assured its long-running success despite the unfavorable judgment of critics. Today's big corporate musicals are almost sure-fire successes because they are symbols of lavish prosperity-a pheasant in every pot, even when it proves to be a turkey. After reading the reviews, Producer Hayward conceded that some changes would be made in Mr. President, but he followed that hopeful news with the non sequitur of the week. Said he: "Critics don't know anything about musicals...
Last week Khrushchev unexpectedly invited Thompson and his wife to a farewell dinner at Khrushchev's private dacha. For three hours, they drank toasts, ate their way through eight courses including Siberian pheasant and Kamchaka crab, "more or less covered the waterfront" on diplomatic issues. "We have a very free and easy relationship," said Thompson. "He scolds me and I scold...