Word: roostering
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After broiling that tough old rooster, Governor J. Bracken Lee. in Utah's Republican gubernatorial primary, G.O.P. Nominee George Clyde seemed to have a tender pigeon in Democratic Candidate Lorenzo Clark Romney. But last week Bracken Lee, who still has a dedicated personal following, announced his candidacy as a write-in independent, a move sure to cut into Clyde's Republican vote next month. Result of the Republican split: Democrat Romney was transformed from dead pigeon into an ominous Utah sea gull...
...once, the Detroit River came alive. Flippant rooster tails of spray arced high as six hopped-up speedboats zippered the straightaway and skittered hell-bent for trouble toward the first turn of the Gold Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes. The last heat boiled into a catfight between two river belles-Miss Thrijtway, a neat cream, orange and white number from Seattle, and Miss Pepsi, a Detroit brawler all tricked out in red, white and blue...
...boxes were marked with party symbols-a rooster for the Convention Peoples Party of Kwame Nkrumah, 47, for four years the self-governing colony's Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953); a cocoa tree for the National Liberation Movement, meant to dramatize charges of graft in the Nkrumah government's Cocoa Marketing Board. "What you need is an honest government," cried the leader of the N.L.M., "one whose hand is not always in the public pocket...
...coins were first minted under Louis XIII, but take their name from Napoleon I, who put his own portrait on them when he was consul. For most of the past century they have displayed a republican rooster, but "napoleons" they remain...
...Birds. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., the case against Frank Richards, charged with allowing a rooster to run loose and perch on the hat of a twelve-year-old girl, was dropped after Richards showed up for trial, informed the court that he had eaten the evidence...