Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novels were most noteworthy for their dust jackets, all of which seemed to boast a red-lipped siren with a low-cut dress and an incredibly pneumatic bust. U.S. intellectuals, who had once ranged from the Paris Left Bank to Communism's left wing, had come home to roost. It was a little saddening to the more daring spirits, but in 1948 it was difficult to want to be anything but an American...
...expose sin. And the voting public, as Dr. Gallup faithfully reported, was decidedly pro-Dies. Three out of every four had even heard of him, which was over-whelming evidence of the instinct for publicity he was to develop even further in his next five years on the roost...
...justice, like pigeons after a night game, has come home to roost, and 34 years of patient waiting by baseball's intelligentsia has been rewarded...
They liked the theater's proportions. But what the Paris' owners, the French Pathé movie syndicate*, liked about the theater was its dollars, which should fatten Pathé's lean coffers. For Pathé, whose crowing cock once ruled the world's movie roost, was now a scraggly bird...
...professor works in a cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...