Word: pigeoning
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...three-week supply of food. Anton cannot feed himself, of course, being paralytic, but that is not Wolbricht's problem. Thinking well of himself, he returns to the city to sell the apartment lease. But what's this? A bump on his forehead the size of a pigeon's egg. Wolbricht presses the bump in, but pop, it comes out on the back of his head. He presses again. Pop, over one ear. Again. This time on the top of his head. That's better, he can wear his hat over it. No harm done...
Fensterwald: A stool pigeon. Does that word strike a chord...
Died. Lady Lansdowne, 46, California-born wife of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Britain's last Conservative government, an ardent hunter and crack shot who won the 1952 British women's clay-pigeon championship; of self-inflicted shotgun wounds suffered, apparently by accident, in the gun room of their Perthshire, Scotland, estate where her daughter Caroline, 17, died under almost identical circumstances nine years...
...silenced the organ for a decade. Two world wars took an even heavier toll. The cathedral's stainedglass windows, removed to protect them from bombing raids, were replaced by sheets of oilcloth, which soon developed gaping holes, admitting not only rain and wind but also squadrons of pigeons that fancied the organ pipes as a roost. For years afterwards, repairmen were extracting pigeon skeletons from the pipes; some pipes have already caved in, while others are held together with string...
...poem has got to be obscure, it should at least repay close analysis. Dawson's "The Pigeon Roof" does. It becomes evident, if one struggles with the disconnected sentences, that the narrator a) hates pigeons, b) once started a forest fire, c) had a friend who was a better poet who almost got killed when they were swimming in an irrigation ditch, but who recovered only to die on a golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing...