Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Sitting on high-tension wires is obviously for the birds. When a bird flutters down from the air and perches on a hot wire, the deadly current rushes about inside the body but, since it is not grounded, can go no farther and does no harm. Squirrels run greater electrical risks, but it is their own fault: they have a habit of nuzzling each other. A lone squirrel can scoot safely back and forth across a wire, but when a squirrel on a charged line touches noses with a friend on a grounded tower, or swishes its tail onto another...
...Coliseum, where Kennedy arrived at 9:30 after canceling his parade, about a hundred young girls wearing Kennedy hats formed an alley for the Senator and lesser dignitaries like Mayor Wagner, Carmine DeSapio and Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson...
...League (lifetime batting average: .284), hit a pair of key home runs for the Giants in the 1923 World Series. But he was at his best when he played the game for laughs: popping out of a manhole in a bush-league outfield to catch a flyball, giving the bird to jeering Dodger fans by raising his cap in salute and releasing a sparrow. In nine National League seasons as manager of Brooklyn and Boston, Stengel never finished higher than fifth; Brooklyn even paid him not to manage by buying up his contract...
...from the same cloth-don't make any mistake about that. Nixon is against the small farmer, against small business, against labor, against public housing, against public power. Come to think of it, I don't know what the hell he is for. And that bird still has the nerve to come to Texas and ask you to vote for him. And if you do, you ought to go to hell-that's all I have...
...shapes and colors that had nothing to do with subject. Or, shifting from the abstract to the representational, she would paint a single flower again and again to find new facets of truth. These early experiments became the preoccupation of a lifetime. She could turn out a single swooping bird, a tumbling abstract landscape or a pair of solitary antlers planted in the desert (see color), but in everything she did she pared reality to the bone. And though critics were later to try to fit her into one or another of the modern U.S. "schools" of painting...