Word: pigeoning
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...That bird has got to be the only one on Earth with lips," said Meg in her soft Southern accent, breaking our own bleary silence amidst the din. The wompoo pigeon--named for its distinctive call--had just flown over our heads...
...partridge or pheasant. Not anymore. Game suppliers and game farms have sprung up across the country to meet the demand for everything from antelope to zebra. D'Artagnan in Jersey City sells two kinds of venison and four different varieties of duck, as well as fresh grouse, wood pigeon and pheasant from Scotland. Five years ago, D'Artagnan was pulling in $500,000 annually; this year it will do $7 million in business...
...there are a lot of "artsy" types in Adams House. Is that necessarily bad? In some ideal sense, it isn't fair to categorize people according to a single trait. There is no doubt that every Harvard student has unique qualities that defy pigeon-holing...
...tapped telephone in his new home, Martin argued that his articles were "just trying to put a human voice into the stereotypes of criminals. I could've dug up a lot of dirt at Lompoc and written about it, but I never did because I'm not a stool pigeon. All I'm trying to do is be a writer...
...parents disappeared during World War II. As a young man, he was pressured into the army and then into an unsuitable, short-lived marriage. Since then, he has carefully constructed a hermetic existence designed to protect himself from all surprises. His plan works, until the morning he discovers a pigeon staring at him in the hallway outside his attic room. The protagonist of German Author Patrick Suskind's second novel seems as commonplace as the monstrous main character of his first, the international best seller Perfume (1986), was bizarre. Such appearances are deceiving. The Pigeon is a small, unassuming paradigm...