Word: roost
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...hope all these people come home to roost in November." Glenn said Glenn and his staffers took whatever solace they could find in the Mondale defeat, saying that the idea that Mondale had the nomination "all locked up" had been proved wrong...
...Republican president of the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants, who counts the Ohio Education Association and the state AFL-CIO on his side and who hopes to raise $2 million to fight the repeal. Explains State Senator Richard Pfeiffer: "The effects of Proposition 13 are coming home to roost in California, and if the repeal passes, they will eventually come home to roost in Ohio...
...strategy worked. One couple immediately resumed the age-old condor courting ritual in which the female nibbles provocatively on her mate's neck. Soon there was a new egg in the roost. At the zoo, Bird Curator Arthur Risser and his crew eagerly monitored the incubation. Two weeks ago, one egg showed signs of movement. Subsequently, a chick managed to peck a peanut-size hole in the shell. Like mother condors in the wild, the zoo staffers tapped on the eggshell. When the chick's strength seemed almost sapped from its struggle to free itself, Keeper Cyndi Kuehler...
...should not be criticized, and by bank executives who argued that such countries could not go bankrupt or fail to exist. In view of the current situation, the Fed and the bankers should remember that they were told that even in lower Manhattan the chickens would come home to roost...
...touch of the unpredictable to the most expectable of activities between the sexes. She had a steamy dalliance in a sauna in Together? and one in an airplane lavatory in Rich and Famous. The writers of Class, to be released next year, have provided her with yet another kinky roost: an elevator. Playing a philandering wife who prowls Chicago's singles bars, Bisset takes up with a virginal prep-school student, then whisks him off for a tryst. This is where the elevator comes in. Not the most transporting of conveyances, but it beats an escalator...