Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first big decision as premier was to spend the province's cash surplus developing the island's resources. Otherwise, he warned, "Newfoundland will never enjoy more than a meager, peasant economy." His opponents cried havoc, and wailed that the cash should be saved as a nest egg, but Joey retorted: "We will use it to get a goose that will lay us golden eggs...
Pressed for action, Casey said: "The government is doing its utmost to uncover the nest of traitors which exists somewhere or other in our public service...
...spies at the Rum Jungle uranium mines (see below) and even in Parliament itself. Australians were beginning to wonder whether the government's search for the traitors was getting anywhere. In Parliament last month, Laborite Allan Fraser asked: "Can the Minister for External Affairs inform me whether the nest of traitors is still in public service...
...Nest of Traitors
...business suit which made him seem a dull duck in a nest of full-plumaged drakes, a State Department lawyer named Adrian Fisher told the judges that the French were trying to weld Morocco into their own economy, insisted that the old treaty stands. The French, added Fisher, cannot very well complain that the evils of a money black market in Morocco are hurting France's domestic economy, while tolerating their own black market at home...