Word: pigeonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in the ring with the camp's boxing champion. Disclosure through stupidity marked the offender as "utterly dangerous"; he was completely ostracized...
...Assam fighter base has a pigeon, Tokyo, which lives in the alert shack...
City dwellers supplement their rations as they can: cats have almost entirely disappeared; Bordeaux has lost most of its famous pigeons and severe penalties have been decreed for pigeon-snatching. Peasants have more to eat, often allow crops to rot in the fields rather than deliver them for shipment to Germany...
Hint. At Fort Bliss, Tex., Private Harry Hammond, who had made excuses to a girl friend for not writing or telephoning more frequently, got a present from her: a homing pigeon...
...breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...