Word: widgeon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...descriptions are accurate. Stretching nearly 200 miles from its northern end at the Susquehanna flats to its southern end at the Virginia capes, only 30 miles wide at its broadest point, the Chesapeake has long been a source of almost overwhelming natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...
...Radcliffe team also did combat Saturday winning the Widgeon regatta at Stonehill College in New Bedford. Marie Roehm, who was the low point skipper at the NCAA Women's National Championship in June, and Sarah Herrick commanded the squad's boat, taking three out of four races against five other schools...
...Seagull, the subject of the cover story that Foote wrote this week. Bach was in Bridgeport, Conn., making repairs on his plane when Foote called to discuss the possibility of a small story about Jonathan's success and its new deluxe edition. "He said he had a Grumman Widgeon and seemed delighted that I knew it was an amphibian," says Foote. As head of TIME'S Books section, Foote had chosen not to have Seagull reviewed when it first appeared. That small story, says Foote "was going to begin, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull is at my throat again...
Correspondent James Willwerth got a firsthand taste of that lifestyle while accompanying Bach in the Widgeon on a barnstorming-style promotional tour from Akron to Los Angeles. Between daytime autographing sessions at bookstores and nighttime layovers at small county airports, Willwerth managed to get in a series of airborne interviews. "At times he had so much to say," recalls Willwerth, "that it was hard to keep him on one subject. We were constantly swapping anecdotes and laughing, and then suddenly I would have to reach for my notebook to keep the conversation from going to waste...
...total of only $360 and had "four good guns" confiscated−a small penalty, he figures, compared with the yearly bag records he keeps in a blue notebook. In 1942, his best year, he took 48 pheasant, 72 partridge, 68 hare, 1 woodcock, 106 geese, 146 mallard, 231 widgeon, 193 shelduck, 2 shoveler, 1 tufted duck, 61 plover, 18 pigeon, 79 redshank, 50 knot, 40 curlew, 1 reeve, 1 gadwall, 1 pintail, 1 black-tailed godwit, 2 whimbrel and 6 rabbit. In the early 1960s, the invasion of the marshes by wildfowling clubs convinced Thorpe that the bountiful days were...