Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-two years before, at the unripe age of 29, Pat Harrison had been elected to the House from his native Mississippi, after eight years had graduated into the Senate. The Republicans then ruled the roost, and Pat Harrison, better than any other, showed how a politician can be effective though in the minority. Tall, lazy, mellow-voiced by nature, he was a gadfly in the Senate, deriding, denouncing, destroying the pretensions, incompetence and mistakes of the Republicans...
...when a Pan Am affiliate had to quit its Shanghai-Hong Kong feeder line because Japanese bombs made Shanghai unhealthy. A year later, using Douglas and Lockheed planes made in Japan with the help of U.S. technicians, Japan started a vast airways network with Kyushu Island as main roost for transports...
...full periods the Hoddermen had the situation well in hand, battling the favored Bengals all over their own rink and running up a 4 to 2 lead. A disastrous third period tripping penalty and a flukey Tiger shot explain why Princeton is still on top of the roost with the Crimson occupying the opposite extremity...
...more than five pictures, requires producers to show their films to exhibitors before selling, Hollywood now not only must decentralize but has to take a great deal more pains with its productions. No longer, thought some, will it be possible for one man to rule any studio's roost...
...ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, trying to solve another problem: a U. S. landing place for their would-be airline. Because New York's North Beach Airport (where Pan Am's Clippers roost) is already overcrowded, Am Ex cannot base there. Mayor Jackson stayed aboard three hours, left after assuring Am Exers they could start Baltimore-Lisbon flights whenever ready...