Word: roosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the White House the air was black with chickens coming home to roost. When Franklin Roosevelt returned from his 16-day, 7,600-mile junket to Mexico, he came back to the biggest all-around mess of his ten years in office. The mess was, in the last analysis, of his own making...
...crises in Washington now were too repetitive, too wholesale for the people to dissociate them from their President. The chickens coming home to roost led straight to the White House door...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...
...intervention" were both equally dead-slain not by Franklin Roosevelt but by events beyond the power of any man to control. The U.S. was now the senior partner of all the United Nations, and the problems that this responsibility brought with it were beginning to come home to roost...
...common in Syria. It looks like an American bobwhite without its topknot and is about four times larger. As a boy Kalaf used to hunt the hajjel and he still has great affection for the bird. Says he: "By golly, this hajjel she is tough one. In Syria she roost on high bluffs and nothing can get him. She make hawk or eagle run like hell...