Word: roosters
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...month, artists spared no pains to reproduce the intricate, scaly silhouette of an Indian archer weather vane, the plump tarnished elegance of a cigar store squaw, or the streamlined rush of the rooster carved by a Vermont cabinetmaker for a horse-drawn carrousel at a St. Johnsbury fair...
...slope-headed, 17-year-old Louisiana Negro saw and tasted death on May 3 as he sat and waited for it, strapped in Louisiana's portable electric chair. It tasted "like cold peanut butter," and took on "little blue and pink and green speckles, like shines in a rooster's tail" when the executioner whispered: "Goodbye, Willie...
...even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened doors, cupboards and trunks helped to keep the birth canal open. A respectable lady did not allow a male doctor to examine her person. Hidden behind the bed curtains, she extended first one wrist, then the other, handed out an ivory...
Down in the henhouse, on my knees, I thought I heard a chicken sneeze, It was only a rooster, saying his prayers, And giving out thanks to the hens upstairs...
Under China's ancient lunar calendar, the Year of the Rooster came to a close, the Year of the Dog began. Everywhere the people celebrated their highest, gayest holiday...