Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troop cars recently authorized, they will not arrive in time to ease this summer's travel crisis. WPB has consistently failed to allot the railroads as much steel as the Office of Defense Transportation estimated they would need; it looked as if that failure was coming home to roost...
...Regulars who were in at the beginning rule the roost. Civilians, obliged to enter as Reserve second lieutenants, are often outranked by women with half their medical background...
...Roost. In Berkeley, Calif., a Mrs. Chick sold her house to a Mrs. Crane, bought a new one through a realtor named Mrs. Gosling...
Emergency Roost. Cautious LeMay waited until pictorial proof was in before he issued his report: "This fire left nothing but twisted, tumbled-down rubble in its path. . . . The area totally destroyed . . . covers a total of 422,500,000 square feet, which is approximately 9,700 acres, or 15 square miles." Half a dozen key installations such as railroad stations and oil plants were destroyed, as well as "hundreds of small business establishments directly concerned with the war industry, many important administrative buildings and other thousands of home industries...
...liked to sit up into the small hours with a brilliant circle of friends ? Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth ? while James Boswell feverishly memorized his conversation. Johnson ruled the roost with a rod of iron. In return for his wit and brilliant common sense, his friends endured his incredible rudeness and prejudices...