Word: pigeons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scotland Yard Police Officer Roy Riggs, on the theft of more than 1000 pigeons from Trafalgar Square in London. The pigeon rustler apparently told bystanders that he was collecting them for pigeon races-a popular sport in England. Scotland Yard thinks the pilfered birds' destination are probably pigeon pie platters...
...that I didn't receive your postcard before the three days were up, I assume you have been eaten. Oh, well. You should have used Fed Ex. If, for some reason, you get this week's FM and you're still alive, here's my advice: first, eat the pigeon-you must be hungry; second, save yourself and join the Boston Church of Christ like they've asked-it's not a cult, really...
...Glass Ceiling report was a rare opportunity to document the private biases of America's top executives; but more than that, in the language of touting the economic and strategic benefit of hiring minorities and women, these executives revealed their continuing pigeon-holing of minorities, in a new corporate cage...
...couldn't find the kitchen. After wandering around the tunnels for a while, we found a tutor who told us we probably didn't want to go there because it was roach-infested. She took us to her room to use her convection oven instead. She had a pigeon living in her room that she found in the belfry. It has some sort of neurological disorder, so its head is kind of cocked up all the time and it just waddles around the fireplace...
...from a 1994 liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey. As a self- described ``champion of small uglies,'' Durrell dedicated his life to the preservation of wildlife. In 1958 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, where he bred endangered species such as the Mauritius pink pigeon to return to the wild. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, Durrell (pronounced Durl) began writing about his life's work, filling books such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) with witty anecdotes...