Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation laster until, after repeated requests by Pottinger and the successive directors, the Corporation voted to split the Press from the Printing office, and let it continue with policies set over the years of its association with the Press, except for the abolition of Murdock's ten per cent nest-egg that had, with generally lowered prices, driven the Printing Office fee to the commercial level and sometimes beyond...
...Lampoon was bolted at every entrance, and that members refused to open up or answer questions over the constantly ringing phone. If the organization does not produce some sort of explanation by this morning, detectives said they would resort to flying wedges and battering rams to invade the nest...
...elder Fradens lived simply and both worked-Mrs. Fraden as a $6,3OO-a-year teacher in the public schools, her husband, a physician, at a $6,800-a-year post in the city health department. But they had managed to set aside a considerable nest egg; counting insurance, savings, pension benefits and some jewelry, they were worth in the neighborhood of $96,000-dead. Harlow found it ridiculously easy to kill his parents...
...other hand, on a fast-breaking story; the city staff can mobilize as fast as a Manhattan tabloid covering a shooting in a Park Avenue love nest. Recently the P-D got a head start on the Greenlease kidnaping, when John Kinsella, its veteran police reporter, noticed an unusual stir of activity around headquarters. He rightly guessed that the kidnapers had been found, and thus put the P-D in position to turn loose a 13-man staff on the story before any other paper...
Acts of heroism were common. One lieutenant won the Medal of Honor by ignoring a bullet-torn left hand and lobbing grenades into a Jap machine-gun nest till he knocked it out. With two more bullets in his chest, he mounted a U.S. tank and fired its antiaircraft gun into a second machine-gun position until still another bullet knocked him off the tank. He was back with his unit within a month...