Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coffee Break. Funnyman Bob Hope took a turn with the gavel, twitted Crooner Bing Crosby, whose new young wife is expecting a baby in August: "You can tell how important this tournament is to get Bing away from the nest. Bing had his last child 20 years ago. That's quite a coffee break." Comedian Hank Henry came on to peddle Texan Billy Maxwell and tried to swing a deal with one of the more belligerent celebrities in the crowd. "What am I bid for Elsa Maxwell? This would be a good buy for Walter Winchell. How about Elsa...
...engine, also a Fairchild development. Fortnight ago the J83 passed its Air Force qualification test, and now the Goose is ready for a production contract that the Air Force will only say will amount to "many millions." Nor is the Goose the only fowl in Fairchild's nest...
...right alongside the population curve; 2) family income, even after taxes, is at an alltime high of $5,300, is expected to pass $7,000 by 1975, and individual savings are at a record level of $340 billion. Among the ads: the picture of a stork perched on its nest to illustrate population growth ("This Bird Means Business"), a shot of a homeowner on the site of his new house ("There's a New Wave of Opportunity Coming...
...Woods. To his contemporaries, Bruegel's art spoke more directly than to the present day. The point of such parables as that of the fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters...
Jack D. Russell, called by some the last of the old-time politicians, last night stirred up a hornets' nest of criticism by studiously avoiding questions put to him by his Gov 141 audience...