Word: birding
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...with powerful pinions beating, the eagle headed for its eyrie. At that moment the child's father spreng out the door with his rifle. Without an instant's hesitation, risking the child's life if his aim were not true, he fired. The great bird tumbled to earth. Except for lacerations, the little girl was unhurt...
...other side of Labor's street, A. F. of L. President William Green was busy as a bird dog. His busyness: horse trading with the Smith Bill (see col. 2); wooing David Dubinsky's independent garment workers; giving an approving pat to A. F. of L. stagehands...
...King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman. He has always wanted to be a Peace King, as his father, Albert I, was a War King. So great is his abhorrence of bloodshed that he despises hunting (one of his pet projects was a bird sanctuary at his villa at Le Zoute). Above all, he is a patriot, and it was a supreme irony that his pity for his people led to the surrender of his country...
...different kind of bird is the Stuka. Whereas attack bombers work on long targets over which they whisk at high speed-such as roads, crowded river fords, lines of marching men-dive bombers work on pinpoint objectives. Attack bombers rely on surprise and a paralyzing quick blow to cut down anti-aircraft resistance. Stuka pilots rely on their swift descent to avoid anti-aircraft shells, on quick pullouts and fast getaways to save their skins from machine-gun fire...
...life of Eire's great Poet William Butler Yeats (died 1939, at 73) was a wild-goose chase after poetical wisdom-a chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...