Word: pigeoning
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...last week, Venter's Negro laborer Mannetjie called excitedly to his boss, held up a yellow diamond the size of a pigeon's egg. The diamond diggers crowded around, passed it from hand to hand. The stone was a "Cape yellow" weighing 511¼ carats, a nearly perfect octahedron and one of the biggest diamonds ever found in South Africa.* Next day Venter sold it for $51,100. Mannetjie's cut: $280. While other prospectors feverishly dug away in Nooitgedacht, Venter said merely: "Man, I been smiling so much it hurts...
People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...
Lepine told the ministry there was only one thing to do: reduce the number of pigeons. This, said he, would be better for both the people and the monuments of Paris. But he had reckoned without the pigeon lovers. The ministry began to get threatening letters. Said Lepine sadly: "There are some who would rather see men die than pigeons...
...unique system, regulated by electronic "eyes" on the roof which adjust the temperature by the sun's heat. By conservative official reckoning, it cost $83 million. At first it was called "Somervell's folly"; critics predicted that after World War II it would become a vast, desolate pigeon roost. Now actually filled to overflowing, it is probably the most efficiently used building in the Government's vast catalogue of real estate...
...Nationalist. He was energetic, grandiloquent, an inveterate smoker of the denicotinized cigars which were to become almost a trademark. He was thoroughly aware of his senatorial position. His sharp-eyed critics in the press gallery dubbed him "the pouter pigeon with the kewpie smile." In domestic politics, he voted against the more radical measures of the New Deal, but voted for relief, Social Security, the New Deal housing program. He was the father of the Federal Deposit Insurance...