Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Range. On a recent, typical duty day a wing of B-47s left Ohio for duty in North Africa; at almost the same moment a squadron of F-84s started from Virginia for Okinawa. Each flight stirred up a wasp's nest of Air Defense Command interceptors (practicing supersonic passes at the outbound planes in carefully planned defense exercises), air refueling tankers far-flung in Atlantic and Pacific bases, air traffic controllers, air detection and warning networks, air-sea rescue squadrons, and MATS units hauling spare parts, supplies and technicians...
...good faith of the bill's proponents is, at least, questionable. One of this year's crop is substantially the same as a bill held unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in an advisory opinion last year. Clearly there are political advantages in blasting Harvard as "a nest of Communists," and offering bills to purify the Cambridge menace. While the measures appear unlikely to pass in their present form, the Massachusetts legislators have been known, as a senior member observed, to do "some awfully stupid things...
...road to the Century began one night in 1950 when Yolaine, a senior at the University of Miami, arrived at the Sacred Cow, a Manhattan restaurant of which Sol was part owner. His mother, Mrs. Sophie Lenefsky, is an accomplished chicken plucker who has feathered her nest over the years by hard work in a chicken market. After World War II, she presented Sol and his sister with $13,000 that she had saved, to buy the restaurant. On the night Yolaine came to dine there, she was introduced to Sol. Two months later when he went to visit...
Wednesday, Iannello called Harvard a "nest of Communists," and yesterday he reiterated his stand, saying "most of our complaints about Communist teachers have come from there." He had no comment on the opposition to his bills expressed at the hearing by Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, and Mark De Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, but repeated his condemnation of professors who invoked the Fifth Amendment...
Their condemnations followed an impassioned attack on colleges in this state, especially Harvard, Boston University, and M.I.T., delivered by Representative Charles Iannello of Boston, the sponsor of two of the bills. Iannello, who supported all three bills, observed, "It is a well known fact that Harvard is a nest of Communists...