Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When one of the great birds, probably Josephine, laid a large, brown-speckled egg, the tension outside the fence neared the bursting point. Wildlifers tramped the marsh, guarding against such raiders as egg-sucking raccoons. Unauthorized visitors were kept at a distance while the cranes took turns on the nest, one of them caring for the egg while the other strode off for food...
...hijacker. Then Luc becomes a ward of the nation, speedily finds that the nation is not much interested in what happens to the sons of heroes. From the cold cup of state charity Luc turns to the warmer brew of Black-Marketeer Vanderputte, a kindly Fagin who harbors a nest of adolescent thieves as runners for his goods...
This is easier said than done for two reasons: medical science has made it possible for men to live longer at the same time that high taxes and high prices are making it harder to save a nest egg for old age. Since the turn of the century, 18 years have been added to the average life expectancy at birth, which is now 65.5 years for the white male infant, 71 for the female; the average man (white) now 65 can expect to live to 77.4, the average woman to 79.4. The number of people in the U.S. past...
...Eisenhower declined, Pepper announced his own candidacy. "This is no gesture," he said grandiosely. "This is a fight." But the fight was just talk. The fall of 1948 saw him campaigning earnestly for Truman. And the election of Truman saw Pepper tucking himself safely back in the Fair Deal nest...
Last week he added 13 more restaurants to the trademarked henhouse, making a total nest of 245 restaurants all across the U.S. that pay him royalties of 2? on each order of chicken served. By last week some 335 million orders of chicken had been sold under his royalty setup. Osborne also sells or leases to his franchise customers everything from patented chicken fryers to water glasses bearing his trademark (a design showing a rooster standing in a clump of grass with a broken golf club...