Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this activity (which helps the U.S. balance of payments) is an unexpected dividend of rising prosperity. As European countries achieved a better economic situation, they relaxed currency controls and thereby enabled investors to turn abroad with their traditional penchant for putting nest eggs into land rather than stocks...
Eliot lies in ashes. Auden flogs his muse infrequently in exile. England, for so many centuries "a nest of singing birds," finds herself today unwontedly in want of a great poet she can call her own. Yet in a quiet nook of Yorkshire, a strange bird occasionally lifts his voice to cantillate the fierce interior music of a tortured and solitary sensibility...
...soon-to-be chosen student leaders adopt these proposals, I feel sure that the bird of governmental strength and stability will make its nest at Harvard...
...Step Beyond. Just behind these movers and shakers are other black humorists, many with similar targets. The life-denying mindlessness often evident in modern psychiatric care got savagely raked in Ken Kesey's brilliant, creepy first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Television got its lumps in Golk, Richard G. Stern's novel about a TV show that puts unsuspecting people on camera. The Negro problem was the subject of Warren Miller's recent The Siege of Harlem, a sly, timely pseudo history of how Harlem became a separate nation. Some writers, of course...
...regimental headquarters of 1,500 Viet Cong, who were dug into a field and camouflaged. Rangers, backed by air support that sowed the field with some 288,000 bullets, 4,000 20-mm. cannon shells, 1,552 rockets and 37,000 Ibs. of bombs, scattered the Red nest. At least 87 Viet Cong were killed and a record haul of Red weapons captured...