Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Ornithological Club, Paynter outlined the results of his study of 25,000 to 30,000 gulls on Kent Island, in the Bay of Fundy. The mortality rate in a one-egg clutch is 75 per cent, he said, compared with only 20 per cent for a nest with three eggs...
...head of a rabbit hierarchy is a muscular, middle-aged "queen doe" who occupies the best burrow in the center of the warren. She permits some of them to shelter in the warren, but when does of lower rank have their young, she forces them to dig small nest holes in distant parts of the enclosure, where they are exposed to predators and inclement weather. Few of the outcasts succeed in raising young to maturity...
Nothing like it had happened since Martin Luther called the Roman Catholic Church "the Devil's nest" and a "den of thieves." The Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the Church of England, announced last week that on his way home from a tour of the Middle East he intends to stop off in Rome and pay a courtesy call on Pope John XXIII...
...only its sheer size kept it from being blown up and quarried for stone like many another great church. In 1794 the lead roof was stripped to make bullets, and during the liberation of France in World War II six Nazis used its north tower as a snipers' nest. War and religious strife have broken the hands and heads of saints, smashed panes of irreplaceable glass. Even worse wreckers were the 19th century restorers who plastered the apse with inanities-candelabra that cast no light, bas-reliefs that conceal the beauties of the structure. Yet today Chartres again stands...
...soon had tots answering the roll in alphabetical order. At midmorning lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make a little nest on the desk with our arms." Then she played hi-fi classical records, hoping to spur "appreciation for music throughout later life...