Word: pigeoning
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...from the start when Gaudio's camera looks on the lifeless landscape of the rubber plantation. Moving slowly, it picks up the dripping of tapped rubber trees, a thatched hut filled with sleeping natives, another hut hung with drying rubber strips, glides beside a fence to where a pigeon is drowsing. The silence is heavy with long, sharp shadows. Suddenly a shot splits the still air, the pigeon flaps off, a figure staggers onto the porch of a house in the background...
...Bragdon 1G, Portland, Mc.; Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 2G, Evansville, Ind.; Thomas D. Durrance 1G, Washington, D. C.; David M. Pratt 2G, Williams town, Mass.; Lloyd G. Carr 1G, Waynesbore, Va.; Kendrick S. Fow 1G, Durham, N. C.; Curtis B. Watson 1G, Haverford, Pa.; and Carl P. Swanson 4G, Pigeon Cove, Mass...
When the telegraph outmodes the pigeon, Reuter tightens his belt, sticks to his ideal of making the world smaller. He convinces even the archbacked London Times that it should subscribe to his-the first-news service...
Most scientists use jawbreaking words for relatively simple things. A biologist says he has "hypophysectomized" a pigeon when he has removed its pituitary* gland; a psychologist speaks of "tactual-kinesthetic perception" when a blindfolded person indicates a point on his skin which has been stimulated. The opposite is true in mathematics, where ordinary words have fearfully complex meanings-e.g., "fields," "groups," "families," "spaces," "rings," "limits," "domains," "functions." In mathematics, a "simple curve" is a closed curve, no matter how elaborate, which does not cross itself-that is, which has one inside and one outside (see cut). An ordinary figure...
...extensively during the past ten years that they have come to be known as "soap operas." Leading soap-opera impresario is Procter & Gamble, whose 15 serials keep millions of women bathed in Ivory and suspense. Responsible for four of P. & G.'s sudsy dramas is Irna Phillips, a pigeon-plump spinster of 37, formerly a teacher, who has turned out a staggering total of 6,000 scripts in the course of her writing career. Now earning about $4,000 a week, Irna is the highest-paid aerial litterateuse in the country, by long odds the most prolific. Last week...