Word: fowling
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...G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
...with $3,000 in savings, Jahn leased a run-down Munich tavern, dressed it up with Vienna woods decor and a resoundingly fowl menu. He figured that hearty-eating Germans-who considered barbecued chicken quite a delicacy and were willing to pay $3 to $4 for a whole one at a festival like Munich's frothy Oktoberfest-would buy it every day if it were cheaper. To keep his own costs down, Jahn bicycled to the Munich poultry market every morning, haggled for bargains, pedaled back to the restaurant with a load of chicken. His specialty: half a roast...
...viruses be convicted of causing human cancer? When the highly technical discussions were over, virus guilt had not yet been proved. But from several laboratories came new-forged links in a damning chain of evidence. Most significantly, after a half-century of working with such lowly creatures as fowl and rodents, the researchers have begun to report suggestive findings in monkeys and men. Examples...
...that their children might get cancer. The Finns worried that their reindeer meat might become radioactive when reindeers munched on contaminated lichen. Great Britain set up plans for rationing baby foods and dried milk if radioactivity became too high. And in India, some people stopped buying chicken and other fowl because they feared radiation poisoning...
...poked fun at the new host of Harvard men in Washington, showed Kennedy sitting in a rocking chair knitting while U.S. prestige declined. On the two crucial issues of the New Frontier so far -Laos and Cuba - Mauldin has hit as hard as anyone: Khrushchev amiably consumes a fowl (Laos) as Kennedy looks on, a blind Kennedy is flung heels over head by a Seeing-Eye dog (the CIA) hot on the trail of a skunk clearly meant to be Cuba. "Once Kennedy was President," says Mauldin, "I didn't even give him the usual 100 days of grace...