Word: roosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston College's talented baseball team opens its season against the Varsity this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Eagles' Newton roost. Picked by Hub sportswriters as the strongest team in the Boston area, the Eagles reputedly have former all-scholastic diamond stars liberally sprinkled at all positions, and a couple of veteran hurlers back from former seasons...
...still trying to solve. For himself he built an industrial empire of coal mines, rubber plantations, iron mines, timberland, sawmills, hydroelectric works, companies in a dozen other nations. The empire's capital was the plant on the River Rouge where the stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated Henry Ford ruled the roost. At one time it was estimated that he was worth $2 billion. The bankers tried to horn in on the empire, but he repulsed them. He had a low opinion of all bankers-especially Eastern...
...roost a while but don't get funny...
Skin-Saving.. "How a prince answers the big political question," cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Neville, "depends on whether he is a big 21-gun-salute* prince who thinks that when the British leave he can rule his own roost alone, whether he is a pro-Pakistan prince, whether he is an anti-Pakistan prince, or whether he is the type of prince who believes that Congress is going to be all-powerful in the new India and hence thinks he had better get on the Congress bandwagon...
...Throughout most of Asia, the white man is truly hated and the sky is black with chickens coming home to roost-probably blacker in Indonesia than anywhere except Indo-China. The natives' passions run away with their leaders' intellects. I am inclined to doubt whether whites and colored will work together in this generation...