Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week formally inaugurated a lady president (Radcliffe's third), to take over from Wilbur K. Jordan, who returns to teaching history at Harvard after ten years. She is Vassar-educated Mary Ingraham Bunting, 48, a microbiologist and mother of four teenagers, who describes herself as "a geneticist with nest-building experience." The widow of Yale Pathologist Henry Bunting, she had a distinguished teaching career at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley and Yale. In 1955 she became dean of Rutgers University's Douglass College for women, carried on radiation research for the Atomic Energy Commission. Her specialty: a bright red bacterium...
...savings, the time-honored bulwark against the hazards of age, have shrunk in proportion to the demands of medical care. In the years when today's oldsters worked and saved, wages were relatively low. Inflation and the high costs of modern medicine and surgery have scrambled many a nest egg. In the past decade, medical costs for the aged have about doubled. Today the average couple over 65 spends $140 a year for medical care, or $700 if hospitalization is needed. But 57% of the aged have means of less than $1.000 a year, counting social security benefits...
...Jewish tailor, Jacobs began with the only racers that could find moving room in New York City: homing pigeons. In 1926 he tapped his pigeons' nest egg for $1,500 to buy a nag named Reveillon. Two years later, he struck up an alliance with Shakespeare-spieling Isador ("Kid") Bieber, a onetime Broadway ticket scalper famed for his big bets (he won $60,000 by backing an underdog incumbent named Woodrow Wilson...
...plastic bottle-cap salesman just home from the Orient was telling an odd tale in Manhattan last week. He had been having an expense-account special (bird's-nest soup, aromatic chicken) at Mang Wing-tei's in Hong Kong, when in came "this big, storklike American wearing a black and blue mandarin's costume. He said he was celebrating the Year of the Rat. Irving Hoffman was his name...
Most of the caves had been cleaned out by Bedouins, but Aharoni found several that they had missed. Inside, the floors were foot-deep with bird droppings and dust, which rose in choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge...