Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attack. In Philadelphia, firemen blamed the burning of Mrs. Hattie Cur ry's house on a bird that tried to use a lighted cigarette to build its nest...
...every year. In 1925 a mysterious fire started in the lounge upstairs open only to varsity crew members. Firemen claimed that the blaze was started by a cigarette, but the coaches naturally refused to believe that any crew member would smoke, especially in sacred territory. They maintained that a nest-building bird flew in with the lighted Lucky...
...fear of going beyond the party's current rules-breaking the long sweep of a natural development to introduce another melody. There were other times when he dressed up a banal moment with humorous orchestral tweaks and twitches, or suddenly stirred up a bee's nest of climax. Only the fourth movement sounded thoroughly like the old Prokofiev; playfully capering themes rippled off into odd harmonic corners and back again almost before the listener knew what was happening...
...toothless smiles. The colors were as exuberant as the designs: heads in chartreuse and grey, faces that were half yellow, half blue, with startling vermilion circles under the eyes. One of the favorites was a group project: a huge mural of Charlestown with all the details, including a nest of pigeon eggs perched on a church ledge...
...Century of the Church pulled down a hornet's nest. It brought an especially strong buzzing from Swiss Theologian Karl Barth, who disagreed on theological grounds with Dibelius' view that the church must fill the void left by the passing of the Kaiser's "Christian state." Snapped Barth: "I have nothing against your argument, but don't call it theology." Dibelius looked on Theologian Earth's criticism as a front-line infantry commander might regard a staff officer's observations on tactics. Said he: "I think dogmatics are a mischief. A systematic theologian...