Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only when he was completely satisfied that the attacks were deliberate and unprovoked did he okay the retaliatory bombing of North Vietnamese torpedo boats and bases. Though some advisers hesitated about striking one big nest of boats dangerously close to Red China, Johnson specifically ordered a strike against that target...
...absolutely authenticated. Moreover, an eyewitness placed Oswald near the killer's sixth-floor store room lair a scant 3 minutes before the fatal shots were fired. In that store room, the Commission says, Oswald's palmprint was found on a carton that had been moved to make a nest for the assassin as he peered out the window...
...August: the Phils led the National League by four games, and the Orioles led the American by three. But last week the staggering Phils, who had since built up their lead to 62, were fighting for their lives, and the Birds had tumbled right out of the nest...
...Yogi Berra's Yankees, crippled as they were by injuries, have been in first place seven times; Al Lopez' White Sox, the punchless wonders, have visited there on eleven separate occasions; and Hank Bauer's Baltimore Orioles have tried twelve times to build themselves a permanent nest on the slippery topmost branch. With just 27 games to play, it is still anybody's race-and the fans love...
Sculptural Typewriters. The Olivetti Corp. of Italy has made beautiful typewriters by dumping the portable from its box and embedding the keys like ranks of tiny birds in a nest. Braun Co. of Germany spends money that it otherwise would plunge into advertising on teaching employees the principles of good design. The effect carries on the Bauhaus tradition in toasters, hair dryers, and transistor radio-phonographs that are perfect plastic sculpture...