Word: roost
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...into antebellum spittoons or, if these weren't available, on the floor. The odor of rank whiskey permeated the place. The faces were hard and mean, with thin, sharp noses, suspicious, light-colored eyes, leathery red necks. Above, in the balcony reserved for Negroes, commonly called the "buzard's roost," it was quiet, except for the occasional crying of a baby. Located on the second floor of the grotesque courthouse, which is made of red Geogia clay, the courtroom was large but the air hung still. Around the walls and the ceiling the paint had long since peeled, leaving brown...
Places outside the total shadow will not get dark; even a thin sliver of the sun gives a lot of light, but the birds will feel that darkness is coming and may go to roost for the night. People standing under trees should watch the light that filters through the leaves. Normally it hits the ground as overlapping disks, each a round image of the round sun. But as the moon creeps across the sun, the disks will shrink to crescents...
...figures only increased the President's worry that his programs will have a hard time in Congress. Departing from his text, Kennedy ruefully noted that Presidents always get blamed for recessions-even when they try to prevent them. Said he: "When things go bad, the chicken comes to roost on the President's house"-an aphorism that, if not up to Shavian standards, is at least a demonstrable truth...
During the Cuban crisis, the Administration indulged in what it euphemistically called "news management"--an unhappy combination of silence and dishonesty which has been sending chickens home to roost ever since. Just over a week ago, Senator Dirksen proclaimed that he had discovered the largest such fowl yet brought to light; four American flyers had been killed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. A day later, Senator Mansfield revealed that "selected Senators"--apparently all Democrats--had been told of these deaths at the time of the invasion...
Millionaires' Roost. Taylor seldom appears at Argus' mausoleumlike Toronto offices, much preferring to work out of the comfortable gatehouse of his 600-acre suburban Toronto estate. A rider and horse lover since college, he operates Canada's most successful racing stable on his own (says Partner Phillips: "I detest horses"), has put Canada's horse racing on its feet by reorganizing it into a few big, profitable tracks. As a private investment, he is developing Lyford Cay in Nassau into a restful roost for such multi millionaires as Henry Ford II and CBS Chairman William Paley...