Word: cuckoos
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...cuckoo's egg in TIME'S nest, if there ever was one-"she-Marines" [June...
...staff at Stoner Creek, the Hertzes' Kentucky farm, had their hands full. Count Fleet was mischievous, willful. During a morning breeze he used to stop suddenly and paw the air. He walked sideways, jumped over his shadow, bucked his riders off. Stable boys nicknamed him Count Cuckoo...
...Even the most naive European spectator of an American film . . . knows when Hollywood is giving him a conducted tour to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. But he compares his native Cloud-Cuckoo-Land with the American version, usually to the advantage of the American version...
From two different villages on the Isle of Wight came reports to the "Nature Correspondent" of the Times of the first spring cuckoo. In the National Gallery an exhibit entitled "Rebuilding Britain" showed flea-sized houses with modern flying buttresses. Britons looked, muttered: "No scullery, no privacy...
...When bird nesting in Bihar [India]," he writes, "I was strolling alongside a high, dense cactus hedge when my attention was drawn to a bird [female cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately...