Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house is cantilevered over a cliff, like a bird's nest on the muzzle of a memorial cannon. In the driveway is a Jaguar sedan named Black Widow. In the two-story living room is a red canvas swing hung from parachute cords. In the dressing-table mirror is the reason for the house, the car and the swing...
Realizing that it might be stirring up a hornets' nest, the commission looked long and hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling...
...slag after a flood in 1956, the fill has sunk so far into the former tidal area that drainage pipes, 30 feet apart, are almost literally supporting the entire area. Instead of allowing rainwater to drain off, the silt serves as a reservoir where seagulls have been known to nest...
...girl in the bath towel had some to do with the smile on the corpse. His suspicion, carried secretly to the publisher's heir (Dean Martin), causes consternation in the executive suite. "I can see the headlines now- FOUNDER OF MAGAZINE DIES IN LOVE NEST WITH NAKED NYMPH." The heir has no doubt that...
...technique is based on the fact that in the usual symphony orchestra, the higher pitched instruments (violins and higher winds) are concentrated on the left, the lower pitched instruments (cellos, bass, brass, tympani) to the right. With a maze of controls he called "the rat's nest," Somer was able to divide a monophonic recording into two separate sound tracks, generally using a high-pass filter to channel the high-frequency violins and winds to the left, a low-pass filter to place the low-frequency instruments to the right. With further gimmicks, such as the adding of reverberation...