Search Details

Word: pigeoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Well, I'm a Christian and the birds are a powerful Christian symbol. Sometimes I use the birds to represent innocence. When people are killing and in war there are always innocent people being killed. And also I like to use the pigeon to represent the presence of spiritual things...

Author: By John Aboud, | Title: Hong Kong's Film King Talks of Censors, Faith | 8/20/1993 | See Source »

Gwynne was also the author of several children's books, including "A Chocolate Moose for Dinner," "A Little Pigeon Toad" and "The Story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alum, TV Star, Dead at Age 66 | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

James MCSweeney, 29, who finished 12th in the 1991 council race, says he believes the tendency of CCA-endorsed candidates to vote in a block causes them to become "pigeon-holed into a particular group philosophy...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Young Candidates Begin Jockeying in City Council Race | 4/28/1993 | See Source »

...notion that dinosaurs and birds are related dates back over a century. In 1861, quarry workers near Solnhofen, Germany, uncovered the fossil of a pigeon-size creature. Its bone structure and teeth were similar to those of dinosaurs. Yet along with the bones, the 150 million-year-old limestone in which it was trapped had also preserved the unmistakable impressions of feathers and wings. It was ultimately decided that Archaeopteryx, as it was named, was a transitional animal, related to dinosaurs but well along the evolutionary pathway to modern birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...balcony [was] rendered unusable by the accumulation of pigeon feces (which we could only get adequately cleaned up after the city health inspector issued Harvard a citation...

Author: By Alex B. Livingston, | Title: Will A $20 Million Renovation Project Fix All The Problems? | 3/23/1993 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next