Word: rara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whooping Congress man. A migratory species of Washington rara avis best known for raucous cries and laying eggs in exotic places. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Scrutable Occidental...
...will always be a whooping crane, Deo volente. And there will probably always be a whooping Congressman. This migratory species is recognized by its raucous cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumbling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of oddest shapes. A splendid example of this rara avis is Charles Orlando Porter, 40, Democratic Congressman from Oregon's Fourth District, who returned last week from a fact-finding flight through the islands along the Asian littoral, a flight that created more embarrassment and consternation than a plague of gooney birds...
...three months' stay with Picasso, Duncan borrows one of the artist's most exultant shouts, says wholeheartedly: "Es una cosa muy rara! [It's something very rare...
...quote the Raven, "Nevermore." Only three ibi have ever been seen in New England, and this particular rara avis is now, as the Poonies say, rara than eva. He may, by the time you read this, actually have become extinct...
...morning last February, the Yale Daily News had frightening news for its readers. "A REAL LIVE A VOWED COMMUNIST spoke at Yale yesterday," it said in ominous capitals. Its front page showed a picture of the rara avis, actually the secretary of the New York State Communist party, docilly sipping coffee before addressing the Yale Political Union on the subject of the Smith...