Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest landowners in Russia?yet he spends so prodigally that his debts are estimated at 200,000 rubles. Catherine has been equally lavish with her affections. Even though he lives near by, she has written him almost daily letters filled with phrases like "cheri ... my pigeon ... mon coeur ... my little soul... my beloved husband." (Though no marriage has ever been announced, there have been persistent rumors that Catherine and Potemkin were secretly wed in late...
Nixon returned Peking's hospitality with a lavish dinner for his hosts in the Great Hall of the People. The Chinese, however, refused to allow him to pay for the ten-course banquet (including "eight-jewelled pigeon" stuffed with lotus root and virgin mushrooms, cream-of-chestnut puree, and other delicacies...
...elevator doors close behind you on the seventh floor of William James Hall, the stink of pigeon droppings consume the air. To your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough...
...insipidity. Admittedly, there's not much time in this snatch of a story for nuance in personalities. Perhaps that's why the comic characters come off best--they each have a bundle of idiosyncrasies to lean on. Heurtebise, clad in blue overalls, shuffles around in a loose-ankled, slightly pigeon-toed walk, with his hands clasped tightly against his waist. The unworldly astonishment never fades from his pudgy face. A natty clerk displays an uninspiredly clever knack for his work that his pompous boss lacks, and briefly supplants the others with an act verging on slapstick. Fortunately, he reins...
...cause of the commotion was the appearance of a single squat, unassuming, pigeon-like bird called a Ross's gull, which is almost never seen south of the Arctic Circle, and never before in the continental U.S. It was indeed present and, as if on cue, put on a show for the hundreds of bird watchers by feeding three times each day with a flock of Bonaparte's gulls (named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte, an ornithologist and a nephew of Napoleon) making their accustomed annual visit...