Word: pigeoning
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Detective Robinson's day begins with the bad news that a patrolman has been shot the night before while trying to stop a car heist. Then a stool pigeon tells him that a well-known hood is back in town to pull a bank job. Piece by piece, evidence comes in to connect the hood with the heist. By 9 a.m. the bank in question is staked out with plain clothesmen. At 1 p.m. the visiting hood and his gang strike, as expected. After a savage gun battle, two thugs get away-without the loot...
...weekly news magazine. In 1948 Springer jumped into the daily newspaper field and made Hamburg's politically independent Abendblatt a leader in north Germany, thanks to his bag of circulation tricks (e.g., giving hundreds of flower bulbs to Hamburg children, organizing contests among radio hams and carrier-pigeon breeders...
...Hanlon's subjects range from a dipping, dabbing Ouzel to a mournful Solemn Heron and a whole series of popeyed, studious-looking little owls. His materials are chunks of volcanic rock found in California's hills. He chisels a bosomy pouter pigeon from pitted grey pumice, uses polished quartzite for the silken feathers of a nesting woodcock, letting the shape of the stone suggest his forms. He chisels a fierce eagle, coldly eying the world, with a few simple curves; in his owls, a rough triangle of stone becomes a beak, a sharp shelf of rock becomes...
...Committee of the Legislature in March. The bill, which provided for a smooth shift to a full-time judgeship system, was then placed in committee. It has remained in committee for well over a month now and, according to key members of the Legislature, it is likely to continue pigeon-holed for a good many more months...
...department's laboratories now line the basement of Memorial Hall, where experiments to see just how neurotic a rat or a pigeon can get, take up most of the students' time. The laboratories and their facilities are open to all concentrators in the department, and most start experimenting with their own animals in their junior year...