Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While studying the nesting habits of the owls, Walker stumbled on an explanation. He dug away the earth over an underground owl nest, covered it with a sheet of glass and set a camera in the earth beside it. Then he watched and took pictures while the eggs were hatched. When the nestlings appeared, he got his answer: when disturbed, the baby owls made a noise exactly like a snake's rattle. Nature may have supplied this trick to frighten off intruders...
...protest Hollywood's attempt to portray itself as merely a reproduction of "Main Street anywhere." This, if nothing else, should incur the mass uprising of every Main Street everywhere to press charges of slander against the most powerful nest of veneer-covered, mental-garbage-disposal-dump ever invented by mankind...
Pseudo Pachuco. His mastery of border Spanish and his ability to imitate a Mexican pachuco (zoot-suiter) led him into a career as an undercover agent. As such, he worked all over the U.S., and at one point fought his way out of a nest of six knife-wielding junkies...
...professor was a wonderful burglar, but he and Francine got to fighting over such issues as who would pay the $150-3-month rent on their off-campus love nest. She spitefully threatened to expose his criminal career. Last July she even browbeat him into signing a confession. He sat down and typed out a list of his burglaries, blaming them on "neurotic individualism." Francine gave the confession to a Santa Barbara detective, who just as obediently kept a promise not to read it until she gave the word...
...visitor to the untidy London flat might guess, it houses an old bachelor. In the sitting room, a hastily thrown coverlet drapes an obviously unmade bed. A litter of books, manuscripts and knick-knacks lines walls and floors like the twigs of a nest. Amiably at home in this cozy mess flutters a rare old bird, the dean of English letters, Edward Morgan Forster...