Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATURE, once free for the staring, now crowded by the split-levels, becomes intimate in an outside-the-window plastic bird house called Vue-A-Nest, equipped with a one-way mirror so that ornithological voyeurs do not have to venture outside to see what really goes on among their feathered friends...
...partnership is a natural. Ever since he joined his Martin Co. with American-Marietta three years ago, Chairman George Maverick Bunker, 56, has been selling off his least profitable operations and building a nest egg that now amounts to $150 million. On the other hand, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge has the biggest industrial process-control operation in the U.S., supplies devices to such firms as U.S. Steel (to control oxygen furnaces) and Riverside Cement (to regulate cement blending). But TRW did not have capital enough to develop the business and make it profitable. With Martin putting up the cash and owning...
...handy vantage point for supervising activity in the children's living room on the lower level. A little balcony juts out at the end of a short passageway alongside the fireplace, saving steps and making family togetherness a practical matter. Says the architect: "You can go from nest to fishbowl to cave in a few steps. The house has endless variety...
Begetter Guessed. Into this mare's nest Rowse has stalked, offering his services, as he puts it with marvelous false humility, as a "mere historian." For anyone acquainted with Elizabethan history, he reports, it is all "quite simple." Beyond all doubt, the sonnets are to Southampton. W. H. was, clearly, William Harvey, Southampton's stepfather, who, when the young earl's mother died in 1608, inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because...
Private Yalu. The helicopter work requires steady nerves. One armed Huey escorting a supply chopper at an outpost on the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon attacked a machine-gun nest that had opened fire. Just before one rocket was dropped, it was apparently struck by a sniper's bullet and blew up, shattering the plane's Plexiglas windows; the gunner and the crew chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger...