Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closely resembling the U.S. crow, old Corvus brachyrhynchos, some of whose unpleasant habits it shares (e.g., eating eggs from other birds' nests). But there are those who love it. And the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries had decided that there were too many rooks. It urged county committees to shoot 80% of them...
Worst of all, a callous News Chronicle reporter suggested a recipe for rook pie.* So far, however, rooks were proving just as hard to hit as ever. As John Gay, another British poet, had put it: "To shoot at crows is powder flung away...
When Roger Dearborn Lapham stepped down as mayor of San Francisco last January (his campaign pledge had been "One Term Only"), he let it be known that he intended to play plenty of golf (he used to shoot in the low 703) and take a three-month trip to Europe. But last week 64-year-old Roger Lapham decided to leave his clubs in the locker room and forswear the Grand Tour. The reason: Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman had tapped him for chief of ECA's $338 million China aid mission. It was one of the toughest jobs...
...Stassen bandwagon had not been brought to a bumping stop, but it had at least been slowed down. Taft's showing was enough to keep him from being knocked out of the running entirely, but it was not good enough to shoot him into the lead. And the best that Tom Dewey could hope to do in Oregon was to recover some of the popular support he had lost after Wisconsin and Nebraska. Actually the primaries had decided nothing: Dewey was still the probable leader on the first ballot, followed by Stassen and Taft...
Baking Powder Magic. This week at Pimlico, on the fringe of Baltimore, he will be boosted up on Citation, the same long-barreled bay colt he won with at Louisville, and shoot for the Preakness. The race will be half a furlong shorter than the Derby, a difference that favors Citation's chief rival, a stablemate named Coaltown...