Word: roosters
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...Rooster In Washington, D. C., a rooster kicked a blacksmith in the kneecap with his spur, causing paralysis...
...expenditures, the Federal Government's were 60% as compared to the states', cities', etc. 40%, and that today the Federal Government's expenditures are 33% to the states' and cities' 67%. "We are not making these comparisons in any vainglorious spirit. Like the rooster who found the big egg, our only intent is to be helpful. This rooster in his wanderings discovered an ostrich egg. He had visions of glorious omelets, generous fries and unlimited scrambles. With infinite labor he rolled his find back to his home pen. Calling his faithful flock together acid...
...whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
...Judged by its conduct in the past few years, it seems to me that the title of the Democratic Party to its emblem, the rooster, so far less noble than the eagle, at least endowed with courage and the love of fair play, is decidedly shaky. It has been standing for obstruction, destruction and disturbance. Of late it has been reveling in abuse, calumny and slander of the dead as well as of the living, so its own skirts have proved to be less clean than those of the party it has been attacking. It seems to me that...
...plot tangles two adjacent families in domestic turmoil because the prize rooster of the one feeds furtively upon the prize onions of the other. A capable cast fumbles hopelessly with the awkward assignment of material...