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...they have seen, birders work on the honor system. Two together must agree on identification. Small and manageable numbers of birds must be counted precisely; huge flocks can only be estimated. (Birders train themselves to do this with reasonable accuracy by throwing a handful of rice onto a dark tabletop, estimating the number of grains with one glance, then checking their estimate by careful count.) Artificial aids to attract birds and flush them from the underbrush are legitimate. Many birders make a succession of noises such as "Pshhh, pshhh, pshhh; psi, psi, psi; tsk, tsk, tsk." Birding virtuosos learn...
...killers, strung out along the field's narrow (10 yds.) "fair" lane, shouted at the disk's approach. Each wielded a hefty Schindel, a "tabletop" with a handle. As the Hornuss zoomed within range, the killers, one by one, sent their Schinden spinning up, sometimes as high as 40 ft., to intercept it. The last killer in line, stationed a full 300 yards from Striker Gruber, finally brought the disk down. Gruber's team got 20 points. If the Hornuss had fallen, unintercepted, in fair territory, heavy penalty points would have been scored against the killers...
...play an integral part in private gardens as well as parks, and in living rooms, theater lobbies, display windows, chapels and airport waiting rooms as well. To sugar its argument, the guild got eight designers and architects to contribute appropriate settings for a number of sculptures, priced some tabletop models...
Appropriately for the Christmas season, a Manhattan gallery was showing some of the most elaborate grownups' toys ever made: automatons produced largely in the 18th Century by Swiss and British craftsmen. There was a gold caterpillar that, when wound, inched along a tabletop in a pretty fair imitation of nature. A gold mouse, ridged with pearls, scurried, stopped, spun and darted about as if in real fright. An emerald-green frog jumped and croaked...
...boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that any man who trusted another was a fool." Arnold looked thoughtfully across the green felt tabletop, replied: "Very interesting, general...