Word: fowl
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...parakeets exchanged what has been called history's hottest kiss on the trans-isthmus high-tension line. The parakeets, one on a grounded wire and the other on a live one, touched bills, doused the lights in the Zone. Linemen found them next morning-two tiny fried fowl with bills still touching...
...lessons, studied Annamite chronicles, browsed through French history, literature and economics. He was especially fond of books on Henry IV, the dynast from Navarre who began the Bourbon rule in France with the cynical remark, "Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented himself heavily with Coty...
...rabbit in a trap: Elizabeth weeps and Robert can't understand why. "It's only a rabbit," he says. Despite expert photography and the best of intentions, the film Conspirator, pale shadow of a good novel, never comes to grips with its subject, ends as neither fish, fowl nor good Red herring...
...million years older than million-year-old man. Boars charge about wildly through ancient mythology; one of them killed handsome Adonis, another was captured alive after a mighty struggle with hefty Hercules. About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese were already eating domestic swine, along with dogs and fowl. When France's Louis XI was sick, only a troupe of "gaily garbed" pigs dancing to bagpipe music succeeded in curing his melancholy...
...this was on St. Valentine's day, When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate...