Word: nest
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...recalls the day Israeli soldiers spotted his white Citroen van on the shoulder of a back road outside the West Bank town of Nablus and, hearing the murmuring behind its closed curtains, concluded they had stumbled on a nest of suicide bombers. At gunpoint, the American exited his vehicle and explained that the six Palestinians with him were a clandestine Christian Bible-study group avoiding the prying eyes of their neighbors. "They are in danger," he told the baffled soldiers--"in danger of being killed." Sam claims to have led more than 100 Palestinians to Christ but says that...
...Most astonishingly, David's transformed his tiny new apartment into a warm family nest - papered with crayoned drawings, overrun by two cats and a hamster - in which his kids feel the freedom to exercise every child's birthright: watching too much TV, making too much noise, and loving their daddy to death...
Student actors, dancers, athletes, politicos and other group leaders have long griped that they don’t have the space they need, though most manage to make do with the basement corners they’ve been allowed to nest...
Cheryl Harris said that David and Becky were excited about the move, but that Elana was slightly annoyed that her parents had waited to do something “this cool” until after she had left the nest...
...compound; peacocks and gazelles roamed the grounds. One party pad that neighbors call the China house was decorated entirely in chinoiserie, complete with murals of Chinese women doing the washing and playing the erhu, a two-string instrument. In the upscale Baghdad suburb of Karada, Uday kept a love nest for trysts...