Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five generals with a force large enough to exterminate a number of unpatriotic countrymen who have uprisen in the states of Lara, Trujillo and Portuguesa, left yesterday for those districts. Exterminate this nest of rebels from the very roots in order to free those unfortunate districts of evil doers who should be exterminated radically by material force of the government...
...they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand, squeezes into it from her abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both lose interest in their family, for the founding of which they have traveled miles up the river. Covering the eggs with sand both male and female...
Abraham Owen Smoot crossed the plains in 1846 with Brigham Young, was mayor of Salt Lake City when the U. S. Army descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
...tangled wilderness of rural Maryland. He looked like, and was, a detective. He had been a detective ever since a day in his small-boyhood when he tossed a baseball through a basement window in the outskirts of Philadelphia and, retrieving it, discovered for U.S. agents a nest of counterfeiters...
...that 68th Congress have been forgotten? It fought three mighty fights. It passed a soldier bonus bill over Mr. Coolidge's veto. It passed the Mellon tax plan, much retailored to the Democratic figure. It stirred up the greatest hornet nest of a political generation, the Harding scandals -Oil, Veterans' Bureau, Department of Justice, Prohibition Enforcement-which, inch by inch, forced Denby, then Daugherty out of the Coolidge Cabinet...