Word: nested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Society Note: Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain's No. 1 Fascist, will join his wife, Lady Diana, in new, enlarged jail quarters this week. Lady Diana has done the decorating job, laying carpets and fluffing pillows, and has hired two women prisoners as servants. The nest: an innovation at Holloway Prison-"flatlets" of two adjoining cells for husbands and wives...
This week Judge Joyce handed out sentences of a year-and-a-day to 16 months in the clink. Even if Minneapolis' Trotskyite mice should win their Supreme Court appeal, their nest had been broken...
...owner of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...
Crowded in the back seat in a nest of cameras, radio and machine guns, cramped by bulky flying clothes, thumb-fingered by heavy gloves, roosting over his camera as he takes pictures of enemy territory, the observer is jolted by rough air, well knows what it is to be airsick, what it is to be bounced about by peppery pilots (who seldom worry about the guy behind). He has the daylights scared out of him half the time...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-third year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...