Word: nested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strict orders to tell all men under their command exactly what orders were being executed and why, and during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...Shoreham Hotel. By afternoon, however, AP had had a change of heart, picked up the story from the version printed by the New York Post. At last Washington heard how Sergeant Jurney failed to find a 225-lb. needle in the Washington haystack but stumbled into a mare's nest...
...next, a buzzing metropolis of 45,000. Saratoga natives, accustomed to this change which occurs annually with the opening, for the month of August, of the oldest and most glamorous U. S. racetrack, did not allow themselves to become perturbed by it last week. Not so the sparrows which nest in the elm trees that shake like huge dark fans over Saratoga's Broadway. Disturbed by lights that burned all night, roused by bookmakers who on the street below kept up a shrill chatter until long after midnight, the birds chattered also, lapsed into nervous silence with the rest...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau declared that the Government's $2,800,000,000 gold "profit" realized on dollar devaluation was "under lock & key." And to end all fear of the sudden emission of $2,800,000,000 of new money, President Roosevelt called the gold profit a "nest egg to be disposed of only in the indefinite future...
Last week without warning Secretary Morgenthau unlocked his vault and took out almost all the nest egg which was not tied up in the Stabilization Fund. Forthwith he announced that he was about to pare the public debt...