Word: roost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby had other business interests-and last month some of them began coming home to roost. A Washington vending-machine firm named him as a defendant in a $300,000 civil suit. In short, it charged that Baker used his influence to control vending-machine contracts let by a Government aerospace contractor and that Baker once told a North American Aviation representative "that he was in a position to assist in securing contracts" for North American...
...Roost No More. In other U.S. cities, many health authorities pooh-pooh the idea that pigeons are a common cause of illness. But downplaying the danger is a mistake. CN meningitis is increasing in Chicago, and one suburban doctor has had five cases this year...
...grids, netting, dummies of cats or snakes, and supersonic howls. They might as well have put up a sign, "No Pigeons Allowed"-which is said apocryphally to have happened in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. The most effective columbifuge so far seems to be a gooey chemical trade-named Roost-No-More, which is smeared on the cornices of buildings. It gives the pigeons a mild hotfoot, and they avoid its smell...
...Final Roost. The cambiali look like ordinary U.S. bank checks-but the resemblance ends there. In Italy's consumer boom, the buyer of a refrigerator or bedroom set signs a promissory note for each monthly installment. He thus may sign as many as 48 cambiali for one TV set or refrigerator. The merchant who sells him the goods uses the cambiali to pay his own bills, just as if they were currency, and his supplier or landlord in turn uses them to pay off his debts. The notes may pass through 20 or more hands before they finally roost...
Died. William Martin ("Willie") Heston, 85, oldtime grid star at the University of Michigan, a halfback who scored 92 touchdowns from 1901 to 1904, led the unbeaten Wolverines to 42 victories, and in the days when Harvard and Yale ruled the roost, became the first non-Ivy Leaguer to make All-America; of kidney disease; in Traverse City, Mich...