Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of whom do not know the real needs of today's Navy, and who are not aware that they don't know. Once the midshipmen get out, their mental growth comes to an end. They putter around the house, repair cars and build furniture; they become nest builders and bird hatchers. If drastic steps are not taken immediately to improve the service academies, I would advocate that you consider abolishing them...
...experiments in mind. Porpoises, another animal uncannily clever at navigation, will be fitted with larger transmitters in the hope of learning how the aquatic mammals set their course. Eventually, the Navy hopes, its little radios will signal defeat for an ancient enemy: the albatrosses (known as gooney birds) that nest by the thousands on Midway Island and make its runways dangerous for aircraft. Naval experts on bird migration suspect that gooney birds navigate to their breeding island by following the earth's magnetic field. If the secrets of the gooneys' system can be uncovered by radio, the Navy...
...Bunting brought more than the skills of a distinguished microbiologist to her new job. The mother of four children, she described herself as "a geneticist with nest-building experience." Since 1955 she had held the top administrative post at Douglass College, a division of Rutgers, and shown herself an energetic leader in tackling the problems of women's education. Arthur S. Adams, President of the American Council on Education, declared that President Bunting's inauguration marked "a new beginning in the life of a great college...
Alone in a Nest. Now Dorothy has left the fellahin class, and at roughly $1,000 a week is a member of Hollywood's petite bourgeoisie. At 26 (Warner's wants her to say 24), she is a solemn sort of flapper. She can imitate a drum, a trombone or a sea lion brilliantly, 'but just as often she imitates Joseph Alsop, brooding fitfully about life and Laos ("The world's problems bother me"). Although she is more than a starlet-Hollywood has no word for a young actress who is steadily but not spectacularly employed...
...brooding boop-a-dooper has had bad luck with maids and pets, and so she lives alone in her bird's nest. She wakes up at 5 a.m. and drives the Jag- she hates cars-diffidently to the studio. At night, if she has no date, she paints ("almost always little girls," says a friend, "and they almost always end up looking like her") or sits in her red swing and listens to 1920s records. On weekends, she does dutifully the chores of a not-yet star: she packs up her 40-lb. dress and dances the Charleston...