Word: roost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harold's Club is offering $100 for the best idea to rid the sign permanently of pigeons. Among the proposals received so far: 1) Make the roost untenable with axle grease or spikes. 2) Blow the birds off with blasts of compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead...
...Those who don't have a hard time ignoring the subject: four of the top ten bestselling magazines on the newsstands are skin books. In this highly successful and sleazy field, the big news is that Playboy, once the undisputed leader, no longer rules the roost...
Most owls roost together in groups of ten or fifteen, but this particular owl is apparently a loner
Whenever he can, Herman Murrah, 41, a wiry Mississippi conservation officer, climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck and follows the raised sand road that runs westward from the small community of Buzzard's Roost into the Pascagoula Tract, a 32,000-acre expanse of hardwood forest and bottom land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow...
...what ruled the roost at Innsbruck, Grenoble and Sapporo were those weird foreign sports, athletic events I could never comprehend. What do those middle two men do in the four-man bobsled? How does one ever learn to ski jump? I imagine one is either very good after the first jump or else very dead...