Word: roost
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...Manhattan café that calls itself the Royal Chicken Roost offered Singer Margaret Truman a six-week engagement, with options, at $10,000 a week. The management's extra persuasion: "We would even change our name...
...Home to Roost. The relationship between Leventhal and Allbee takes on curious new dimensions. Though Leventhal, in his blundering way, seems dark, powerful and stern, he is a prey to suspicions and frights that are the counterparts of Allbee's. When Allbee, evicted from his furnished room, moves in to live with him, the intimation is hard to miss that Leventhal's alter ego, his subconscious share in the general ills and abandonments of humanity, has come home to roost...
...lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home to roost--Harlow is perhaps the greatest defensive innovator in American football. His so-called "looping" defense, where his line shifted toward be sideline and his backs in the other direction, took prewar Army intelligence three years to analyze in scouting reports...
...magnetic compasses," i.e , some sensitivity to the earth's magnetism. Yeagley tested this notion by fastening small magnets to the wings of well-trained pigeons. Confused by their own magnetism, most of the birds never got home. Others, carrying equal wing weights of nonmagnetic copper, made the home roost without trouble. The experiment indicated that the earth's magnetism is a factor in pigeon navigation...
...pigeon's own magnetic compass could not, by itself, bring him back to his roost. Like a ship, a pigeon needs some other instrument too. Many places on the earth's surface have identical magnetic conditions. A pigeon guided by his compass alone might end up almost anywhere...