Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monogamous swan caresses the head and neck of his beloved while uttering soft cries. Male argus pheasants impress with an involved dance, spreading their wings to form a saucer for a finale...
...humanities can let you down too. He might have used the metaphor of Odysseus concealing himself under the rams in order to deceive the Cyclops, for example, but the purpose of that deception was escape, not gain. He might also have used the metaphor of Leda and the swan, Zeus taking the form of a swan in order to seduce Leda. In this allegory, the country plays Leda, Reagan the swan, and the act plays itself...
...started after Harvard's first drive of the quarter moved from its own 38 backwards to its own 36. Villanueva came in to punt on 4th and 12. Except that Villanueva bobbled and then booted Turner Swan's snap, and Cornell defensive tackle Steve Duca fell on the ball at the Harvard six. It seemed that once again the big play--remember the blocked-punt touchdown by Holy Cross--would spell Harvard's doom...
Floating like a swan in the wake of Theodore Sr. was his adoring wife Martha, a Southern belle who conveyed into middle age the voice of flute song, the fragrance of blue violets. Besides Teddy, known as "Teedie," there were three other children, all equipped with their own preppie nicknames: Anna, known as "Bamie," Elliott, known as "Ellie," and Corinne, known as "Conie...
Aristotle, says Terres, unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...