Word: tern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a corkscrew) and domestic explosions (father to a small boy who has nailed his Christmas stocking upside down: "You call that hung by the chimney with care?"). The Book of Terns by Peter Delacorte and Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated, from tern of the screw to Comintern. A single-joke book, but a funny one, deserving of a big ternout. If the bird book rises from the dictionary, Hamburger Madness...
...ornithologist worth his Sterna dougalli (common tern) should trek back Route 6 to Chatham and visit the National Wildlife Refuge on Monomoy Island. Information about reaching the island--a permit is required--can be obtained at the Chatham Town Hall or at the Seashore's visitor center in Eastham...
Andrew Young, ambassador to the United Nations, and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson spoke as visiting fellows last tern...
...present there is no representative of organized labor on the authority," one member of the Teamsters charged. "John Clinton, whose tern has expired, has purportedly been that representative...
...California board of regents and the state lands commission. Although no serious complications now seem likely, Ronald Reagan's frequent out-of-state speechmaking trips technically shift the governorship to the next in line. After one such recent trip, James R. Mills, the state senate president pro tern, complained, "for the first time in history, no one knew who the Governor was. If Ed Reinecke didn't legally succeed to the powers of the Governor, then I did. No one knew for sure...