Word: fowling
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...fashioned bride (the bridegroom had chosen her by photograph), a subservient wife & mother (three children), sheltered by the taboos of a feudal-minded patrician society. Her most daring departure from tradition had been to learn modern dancing. In her first days as a commoner, while her husband tended his fowl, she gave dancing lessons to other former lords and ladies in her living room. The dances became parties, and the parties moved to the fashionable Industry Club. Mrs. Kacho began to get around. As she explained it all later, "Immersed only in his chickens . . . my husband was not the type...
...Fowl Play. In Spokane, after Dennis Williams set up a stuffed owl on the roof, the cooing pigeons which had been harassing him nightly moved out and two live, hooting owls moved...
...same time, he turned his back squarely on migratory birds; until last week he not only had to regulate hunting of migratory wild fowl, but promulgate rules concerning transportation and sale of their drumsticks, wings and necks (in case a wily scofflaw dissected them). He also shucked off responsibility for toll-fixing on roads and trails in Alaska. This was just a beginning; abolishing obsolescent chores such as the mint commissions is still to come. Eventually he hopes to confine presidential decisions and paper work (he signs from 600 to 800 papers a day) to matters more directly concerning...
Hatch spent 18 years in Martandam. The villagers soon nicknamed him "Double-Your-Money" Hatch. They learned to breed the best poultry in India, instead of the semi-wild jungle fowl that laid an egg every two weeks. They learned to build roads, how to control malaria and cholera, weave baskets, rugs and rope. Instead of their sticky, grimy jaggery (unrefined sugar candy), Hatch taught them to make clean palmyra sugar to be sold at double the price of jaggery. He introduced scientific beekeeping, revived the art of kuftgari (working designs on iron and silver). At the same time...
...alliteration is tempting but the bat is not a fowl, it's a mammal...