Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nest varsity contest is an away meet with Springfield on Feb.9...
Afterward, Communist Chou tendered a great banquet (on the menu: swallow's-nest soup, kidney, chicken, fish, shark's fins, crab, abalone, mushrooms, Peking duck, broccoli in oyster sauce). Toasts were drunk in Chinese wine. The Chinese showed a movie in color, a harrowing love story. Both sides issued a short statement: "We feel that these talks have been useful." Then Hammarskjold flew back to New York via the Pacific, completing an around-the-world swing. On leaving, he sent Chou his "sincere personal thanks...
Petersburg, needled Russia with a masterly seriocomic study of a chronic lazybones whom he called Oblomov. The book was largely ignored by readers rushing to buy the latest novel-A Nest of Gentlefolk-by Turgenev. Literate Russians eventually recognized Goncharov's genius, but after nearly a century, his major work is still little known in the West. Probably no finer introduction exists than the supple, perceptive new English translation (the first in 25 years) by David Magar-shack, himself the author of two good biographies of Chekhov and Turgenev...
...world: "Moscow is heroic," he will remark, jocosely, "but Paris is the joy of living." Ho Chi Minh is a kindly man, it seems, who calls his associates "Little Brother," while they call him "Uncle Ho." Yet Uncle Ho, it also seems, keeps his favorite Swallow's Nest-a rare and expensive delicacy made from the saliva of sea swallows-in his room so that he will not have to share it; he keeps Philip Morrises in one pocket for himself and passes poor local cigarettes from another...
...Lawrence family, of 2 Polstead Road, Oxford, consisted of father, mother and five sons. In this "nest of young eagles" (as an Oxford don termed it) was an atmosphere of faith, eagerness and self-confidence that seems closer in time to the court of King Arthur than to the 20th century. Each member of the Lawrence family took for granted that his duty in life was that of a Galahad: honor, rather than fair ladies, was the desired prize. The great "T. E.," second-born of the five, and Britain's legendary World War I hero in the turbulent...