Word: pigeoning
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...nauseated over three-footers, and there were tournaments when I couldn't keep a meal down for four days." The pressure causes golfers to study a green as though it were a minefield, surveying each blade of grass along the intended route. Their stances vary from the pigeon-toed crouch of Palmer to the cross-handed contortions of Orville Moody. And once the ball is on its way, they try to coax it along into the hole with some of the most astounding body English this side of a Martha Graham troupe. The stakes are worth it. As some...
Lies a Lot. Recently turned 43 ("I don't mind telling, because I look older and then people are pleasantly surprised"), Erma has three children -Betsy, 16, Andy, 14, and Matt, 11. The farm has three smelly dogs; three horses, one of which is pigeon-toed and wears orthopedic shoes; and 28 "oversexed" ducks, one of which Erma calls Myra Breckinridge. "We also used to have white mice," she says. "Now we've got brown ones, everywhere...
...Maya curer of seventy-two years and no teeth, bolstered for the sacrilege by many chill beers the cabdriver has put in him, awaits the couple. 343 chickadees and a pigeon chirrup away and 3 unfortunately die of heart failure when Girl and Alfred come snooping around their wicker cages...
...Greene, meanwhile, is proceeding with a sociopsychological striptease of Aunt Augusta. For while she has the pouter-pigeon arrogance of a Wilde dowager, she is revealed after a dance of the seven veils as a smuggler, a member of a group of traveling tarts, and a lover of men who are unlovable to others. Somewhere along the line, like Greene, she has become a Catholic but, again like Greene, she has a weakness for touching the "untouchable." Her last untouchable is an Italian of fathomless duplicity named Visconti, who has bilked everyone from cardinals to oil sheiks...
...Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...