Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape in bad weather or darkness, the entire convoy could be blasted in their huddle, and, if necessary, run down...
...ogle-eyed jinx that persists in shadowing Harvard football captains finally came home to roost at Soldiers Field yesterday when it was learned that Joe Gardella who sparked the team throughout 60 minutes of the rain-soaked content Saturday would be lost to the team for the Penn struggle at Philadelphia this week...
Last week Bertrand Russell (Earl Russell in England) found a roost. His U. S. odyssey had taken him to University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught last year, to Harvard, where he lectures this autumn, and to the College of the City of New York, where his appointment raised a storm. When a Tammany judge last spring ruled that his "salacious attitude toward sex" disqualified him to teach at C. C. N. Y. (TIME, April 8), U. S. men of learning deplored the New World's inhospitality to one of the world's original minds. Last...
...where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity has finally come to roost in his poems...
...they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create susceptibility. Most significant of these were universal insecurity, worries, phobias, fatalism, war fear. To sum up, Dr. Cantril quoted the late Heywood Broun: "Jitters have come to roost...