Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck seemed behind the spacecraft at last. Forgotten for the moment was the mare's nest of trouble that had postponed the flight for two days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
...women's colleges, Wel lesley girls stand out as a bit odd, at least as seen in stereotype. They are not given to the long hair, bulging book bags and breathless brilliance found at Radcliffe. They lack the Junior-League-socialite attitude of Smith. Vassar's ear nest, do-gooder zeal eludes them; nor do they share the compulsive egalitarianism of Barnard students. They are neither so muscularly athletic as the Bryn Mawr girls nor quite so country-sweet as the Mount Holyoke lasses. Their distinguishing characteristic, in short, is that they don't stand out. They...
...this elegant little piece of nature literature, Author Robert Murphy (The Pond, The Peregrine Falcon) describes the life of one golden eagle from the day she leaves the nest in Colorado to the day she sinks her beak into the poisoned carcass of a ewe. Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...
...contemporary America, however, the royal raptor has about the same status as a clay pigeon. With the cynical and inaccurate excuse that it is a men ace to both man and beast, the golden eagle has been poisoned, trapped, nest-robbed, and pursued in planes by hot-shots taking potshots until the North American variant of this noble species stands in imminent danger of extinction...
...character has a carefully plotted relationship to every other, a relationship often twisted by family ties and past animosities. If a production succeeds, every line crackles with the meaning behind it; the languid pace becomes for the audience, as it is for the characters, a veil that covers a nest of suspense...