Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hull doesn't recognize his chickens coming home to roost. He makes vague statements, then blames newspapers for reading various meanings into them. If he were specific, only the truth would appear in the press...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...
...eyed, barrel-chested roost-ruler of Puerto Rican politics bellowed with pain. This time, for a change, his three big rivals came out with echoes. How could they lose? The issue was everybody's sweetheart...
...politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...
...King had good reason to keep his secret as long as he could. Though he now rules the Parliamentary roost with a fat 105 Liberal majority over all other parties, times have changed since the last election. Mackenzie King well knows that the next election may split the oldtime political structure of Canada asunder...