Word: cluck
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...elements-fall into a trough that flushes the refuse to a rendering plant across the street. The refuse is then converted into chicken feed that is recycled into the next generation of broilers, who become unwitting cannibals. This super-streamlined operation, which uses everything from the chicken but the cluck, is run by Stratford of Texas Inc., a company less than four years old. Chief Executive Officer Robert Gow formed it in order to apply the computerized principles of industrial engineering to the task of pleasing a nation of hungry consumers...
...seducer-whose own mother described him as "not very attractive." and really interested only in motorcycles-said all too much. Arrested on a theft charge, he started talking about Marie-Claire. The authorities indicted her, her mother, the two friends and the angel maker. All France settled back to cluck over the trial...
...also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge and the sexy whistle of the gray plover...
...about a pair of maiden aunts or bachelor brothers who in some 30 years have become fussily attuned to each other's quirky habit patterns. Charlie (Rex Harrison) is a peacock with a peckish tongue. Harry (Richard Burton) is a broody, sentimental mother hen with a semi-articulate cluck. Both men have auditioned for life and failed. Running a barbershop in a moldering district of London, they are each other's consolation prize. No hint of lust knits them together, only a saturating fear of loneliness. A special terror is to be aged and alone, and this...
...tribute to the intensity of his vision that Wright's poetry-distilled to the essential, like Robert Frost's-does make the reader cluck with the ancient pity...