Word: roosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense irreplaceable, but the current "teachers' market" has sharply increased the competition for competent young instructors. Thus it is that the University's prodigal policy as regards its instructors--requiring them to meet a "produce or-else" deadline, undervaluing their qualifications as teachers--has come home to roost, plaguing the English Department with a shortage of good teachers at the very time-when their presence is most vital...
...fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when he seems finally beaten Ben ferrets out of his mother his father's guilty secret. Being enough to lynch his father, it is more than enough to break him. Ben now rules the roost...
...Home to Roost...
Peace Comes Home to Roost...
Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...