Word: roost
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...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...
During World War II, many new devices (e.g., radar) were adopted and developed to great refinement by the Navy. After the war, the Navy tended to settle in the just-established pattern. Rulers of the roost in the doctrine of the Navy were the carrier-borne airmen, who had fought spectacularly in the war in the Pacific. Far down in the list of the Navy's seagoing establishment were the submarines. They had played a vital part in the Pacific war, but they seemed to have little purpose against a potential enemy without much ocean commerce...
...truth is that - individual cases aside -Britons do not like Americans, and I suspect most other nations don't either, for the same reason that Britain was disliked when she ruled the roost. This dislike does not matter very much; the trouble is that a bungling foreign policy plus the utterances of a few of your louder-mouthed politicians have cost the U.S. the respect she enjoyed...
...wind, excessive cold or heat, bullying and cannibalism. Whether the bird itself has views, we do not know. But . . . too many people think of hens in human terms. They say the birds can't lie down [in the batteries]. A hen doesn't lie down, anyway-it roosts, and it can just as well roost in its battery...
...groups. Says Fontaine: "This isn't a Government thing, I'm not even trying to sell America. What it is is the people of an American city trying to find out how the people of Europe live. What they think. How much things cost. Who rules the roost at home. What they think of America...