Word: roosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Old Crows." Copies also reached news-hungry wire-service correspondents at Gettysburg, and soon the deadpan stories were going out on U.P. and I.N.S. wires. Last week- as once before (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953)-the crows were coming home to roost: into the office of the society (which consists of a pressagent for National Distillers' Old Crow whisky) flew more than 500 clippings showing how the wise old bird had made gulls of the Washington Post and Times Herald, the Boston Daily Record and other papers all over...
...becoming a great samurai. He soon has a chance when a rabble of bandits raid the farm. Toshiro kills the bandit chief and routs his men, then becomes a beast of the hills. He sweeps back into his native village, scattering the militia like a cat in a hen roost...
...also opposed to the NAACP according to Mr. Talmadge. This piece of revelation is gained by observing that "nature has produced white birds, black birds, blue birds, and red birds, and they do not roost on the same limb or use the same nest." With the Constitution and God on his side, and Abraham Lincoln's "true views" thrown in for good measure, Talmadge is pretty well equipped to defend his sovereign state of Georgia against innovations...
More practical still, considering the crowds at past lectures by Toynbee and Stevenson, would be the construction of a moat and drawbridge. Other exterior alterations would include the conversion of the parking lot into a stable, the lawn into a tournament field, and the bell tower into a falcon roost. Gargoyles in abundance would smile upon the entire scene...
Thornburg's recommendations apparently went to roost in an Ankara pigeonhole, and Diplomat Zorlu turned to the U.S. for $300 million. Zorlu's argument was spare and simple: surely the U.S. would not let a stout ally down in its hour of need. Some Washington officials used the word "blackmail...