Word: hens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Headman Kholodilin hovered over his group like an anxious mother hen. All conversations with the press or stagehands were filtered through the delegation's interpreter. Finally, after much speculation and two postponements, an audience which had paid steep prices for tickets (up to $8 for orchestra seats) sat down to judge Ulanova...
High up in Chicago's Tribune Tower, the door to Colonel Robert R. McCormick's sanctum flew open. Out strode the colonel's niece, 30-year-old Ruth McCormick Miller, editor of his Washington Times-Herald. Mad as a wet hen, she took the elevator to the lobby, hustled off to her suite in the Ambassador East Hotel. There Newshen "Bazy" confirmed a fast-spreading rumor: she had just had a "heated showdown-not loud but emphatic"-with Bertie McCormick. Furthermore, she was all washed up as boss of the Times-Herald...
...Grand Hotel. There is not enough significant interplay; characters constantly mingle but seldom merge. There is rather the sort of populous, externally shared living that is the basis of social comedy. And the play offers effective social comedy through such types as a tart matriarch or a hen-brained gadder, or through the assorted disturbances caused by the returning beau...
...words like 'honor' and 'noble' and 'courage,' and I spent most of my time scribbling them down." Later, as a recognized poet on a lecture tour in California, he was more explicit: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg." When he visited a friend in Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter...
Obsolete Pilots. Nevertheless, Kindelberger thinks the piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...