Word: lair
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Each year Harvard lures hundreds of freshmen to its lair, using as bait the promise of a chance to study in small groups with Nobel prize-winners, authors of great books and other academic luminaries...
Scientists find a lair for the Legionnaires' disease...
This made the United Flock very mad, and they ran around the yard bleating loudly, and lit the grass on fire, and took over the holy oak and the duck pond and Roso the bear's lair and Archie the badger's house and John the fox's den and the nests of the council of owls, and fired all the goats, and told the sheep they could have hot apples again and they could eat whatever kind of food they wanted and could live wherever they wanted to. Then the United Flock sold the Aparkside rocks, and declared Vard...
...civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts, and offers a little touch of comedy when a hapless secretary blunders into a war conference wearing shorts and carrying a tennis racquet...
...Dolphin Lair, 21, a janitor whose father died of lung cancer, held a man hostage atop a Los Angeles skyscraper for 2½ hours to warn against the dangers of tobacco. Result: he gave up without a struggle...