Word: terns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated at this time, that "I have continually been in the minority of this delegation. After the meeting yesterday in which I voiced sentiment against those of the majority I observed my suitcase and passport in good condition. Twenty minutes later my suitcase was opened and the passport tern...
...ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen...
...loyally for the Administration on Capitol Hill, and had stuck staunchly by Harry Truman in the dark days before Philadelphia. This week, for such services loyally rendered, Scott Lucas, 56, was chosen new Majority Leader of the Senate. (Tennessee's ancient Senator Kenneth McKellar, who became president pro tern, will inherit a purely honorary role and the use of a Cadillac limousine...
...Easter Islanders were bird fanciers, in a way. Every year, when the sooty tern returned to the island to nest on the volcanoes, there was a bloody struggle over finding its first egg. The man who found it ran to the top of the mountain while the others shouted, "Shave your head, you have the egg." He shaved his head and painted it red while the losers slashed themselves with sharp instruments...
Migrating birds are excellent navigators, hitting small oceanic islands like radio-guided airplanes. But some of them seem to cross unnecessary oceans. The Arctic tern, for instance, nests in summer in North America; when winter approaches, it heads for Antarctic regions near South America. But instead of flying south, the most direct route, it heads eastward across the North Atlantic to Europe, then down the African coast and across the South Atlantic. Other birds that migrate long distances take similar detours. All this tends to vex and confuse the ornithologists, who want to know why birds behave that...