Word: roost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Elizabeth Bentley began naming names from her Communist past, no one was more indignant than William Henry Taylor, onetime U.S. Treasury Department official who had found a comfortable postwar roost with the International Monetary Fund (as an adviser on Middle Eastern affairs). Upon learning that Witness Bentley had cited him as a member of the Nathan Gregory Silvermaster-Harry Dexter White spy ring in the Treasury Department, Taylor angrily fired off letters and an affidavit denying that he was or ever had been a Communist. Last week, after hearings on Taylor's fitness to continue with the International...
...past six years. Its 20,000 whites live apart in a suburb that seems far too big for them. There are broad, empty boulevards and a scattering of modern skyscrapers, but the buildings seem isolated amid the mango palms and yellow-flowered cassia trees where the red-tailed parrots roost. Many streets are unpaved and unlighted; in heavy rain they turn to quagmires. Leo's whites are mostly officials or highly trained business executives-managers, engineers, sales agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking crew, and they have plenty of money to spend on oysters. Scottish salmon and French...
...irrigation canals, sand jammed the thousands of storage cisterns, salt caked the wells. And on the Nabatean dew mounds, carefully constructed 2,000 years ago of millions of pebbles to catch and condense the desert morning dew and trickle it onto the seeded earth below, buzzards took up roost...
...night last summer, at State College, Pa., where 20,000 starlings had formed a monstrous roost, Frings and Jumber set up their tape recorder under four infested trees. The starlings awoke to the nightmare sound of starlings in deep distress. They fled the haunted trees and did not come back...
...external alarms. It has not been moving on a path consciously and deliberately chosen. The President notes that, in the international struggle, the initiative is coming into U.S. hands. That is no accident. Initiative is a bird that can-be snared only by a firm purpose. It will never roost for those-however strong or rich or right-who do not know what they want to do with...