Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight over control of the Cincinnati Enquirer appeared to have reached a truce last week. It began when Reporter James H. Ratliff Jr. and City Editor Jack Cronin charged top management with feathering its own nest at the paper's expense-and promptly lost their jobs (TIME, Dec. 5 et seq.). But last week stockholders overwhelmingly re-elected Reporter Ratliff to the Enquirer's board of directors. Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield-one of the employees' main targets-announced his resignation, and Publisher Roger Ferger, whose annual earnings of as much as $104,700 had come under fire...
...also opposed to the NAACP according to Mr. Talmadge. This piece of revelation is gained by observing that "nature has produced white birds, black birds, blue birds, and red birds, and they do not roost on the same limb or use the same nest." With the Constitution and God on his side, and Abraham Lincoln's "true views" thrown in for good measure, Talmadge is pretty well equipped to defend his sovereign state of Georgia against innovations...
...outspoken statement of the board's reasons: "They say I was fired for 'disloyalty, conspiracy to undermine normal channels, attempts to stampede and coerce, persistently fomenting discord . . .' I deny these charges." Instead, the veteran newsman accused the paper's top management of feathering its own nest at the expense of the 4,200 stockholders...
Before reading your Oct. 24 explanation of the Crown of Thorns by Alfred Manessier, the painting had already become a "meaningful experience" to me. I thought it was two red eggs in the nest of a mentally confused bird, over which a one-eyed crap shooter had carefully laid a spiked steel trap...
...favorite food of the birds. The company decided that the chief reason why the birds did not increase to the limit of their abundant food supply was that their small islands were overcrowded and not in the right places for harvesting fish efficiently. The birds cannot normally nest on the mainland because land animals kill them and destroy their eggs...