Word: pigeoning
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...admitted him. "In our country," lectured Komsomolskaya Pravda, "the first country of mass atheism in the world, religion is a citizen's private affair. But how can Komsomol members consider religion a private affair when it affects the Komsomol? They were not admitting him to a club of pigeon fanciers, but to a political organization...
...bumper-to-bumper tie-up, Salesman Bink Beckmann reacted with unusual calm; he had a unique way of keeping his blood pressure down. On a tiny slip of paper he scrawled, "Hold dinner; traffic tie-up"; then he reached behind him into a cage, seconds later sent a homing pigeon fluttering out of the car window. A pigeon fancier, Beckmann carries eight pigeons on his daily rides to and from work, keeps his waiting wife informed of delays with pigeon-powered bulletins to their San Rafael home...
Many comedians are prolific brand-name droppers. Gagged Bob Hope recently: "The NBC peacock is really a plucked pigeon with a Clairol rinse." Jerry Lewis punched out a joke with the tag line, "Look, Mom, no cavities!"-which happens to be a slogan of Crest toothpaste. Steve Allen built a skit around Colgate's toothpaste ingredient, Gardol, and the Three Stooges built an act around Polaroid cameras. On NBC's Ford Startime fortnight ago, Dean Martin greeted Guest Frank Sinatra with a cheery "What's this you're wearing-My Sin?" And on a Crosby-Sinatra...
...Tell her something different for once, that you live in Bankok and go to the University of Thailand. You came to the game on your roommate's carrier pigeon; it was a pretty difficult trip, all in all, you could never keep the bird on its course. Then tell her that the Adriatic is beautiful at sunset, that the waves smell like honeysuckle and musk. Tell her something different for once...
...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...