Word: nest
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...watched in awe as huge, wide-bodied jets made seemingly impossible turns on the famous, curved approach to Runway 13. Aircraft banked an improbable 90?, almost skimming the tops off the neighboring apartment blocks. The scene was straight out of sci-fi: huge, metallic birds coming home to nest with a demented roar...
...into Port Royal, and atop it stands the proudly scurvy Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). As it glides shoreward, the ship is taking on water and has nearly sunk by the time it reaches land--allowing Jack to step lithely, blithely and with Astaire timing from the crow's nest onto the Port Royal dock. This little scene, reminiscent of a visual gag in a Buster Keaton silent comedy, comes at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, cuing audiences to the suspense, grace and fun of the next two hours...
Cairo is not the hornet’s nest of anti-American rage that I had deliriously imagined the night before I flew here. It is not the city of thieves that my Mom warned me about. It is not the mercilessly hot environment that everyone complains about (it’s more or less a dry heat). In other words, Cairo has definitely not been “keeping it real.” It is a place that is torturous to pin down, where you can buy your McArabia sandwich from McDonald’s, and enjoy...
...neglectful carelessness regarding reprisals they sometimes bring down on pre-existing Christian churches and nonevangelistic aid groups. Says Lamin Sanneh, a Muslim convert to Catholicism who teaches the history of world Christianity at Yale: "They come in, don't report to the local churches, stir up a hornet's nest and then quit town when the going gets tough. Why start a controversy if you're not there to face the brunt of it?" Seiple notes that after Curry's and Mercer's arrest in Afghanistan, "all of the other Christian organizations were expelled until the Taliban fell...
...Knowles, a former hairstylist, designed the group's look. Both still work full time on their daughter's career, and during the two weeks a year when she's not traveling or touring, Beyonce lives in her parents' Houston home. To make Dangerously in Love, however, she left the nest and took up residence for several months in a Miami hotel. "The last Destiny's Child album was recorded in, like, 12 days. Twelve days. For this album, I just wanted to get away from any kind of pressure and take my time. I wrote 43 songs ... And I recorded...