Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many joined twins, like Chang and Eng, have lived long, full lives in their connected state, married and produced children. After leaving show business in 1840 with a nest egg of $60,000, the original Siamese pair married sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates, adopted the name of Bunker, and settled in the house where Farmer Robert died last week. Both were good farmers. Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler. Once, say the Carolina neighbors, the brothers were repairing the roof of their house when they had a quarrel. Chang seized a hammer and threatened to clout...
...Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...
...added that his committee would attempt to interest more men in the College by breaking-down the traditional myths which visualize Harvard as a "brain factory" and a "nest of snobbery...
...Marines, later had marched with the Army infantry on the Mexican border. In 1917, he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the cavalry, fought through the toughest land battles of World War I in France and won a D.S.C. for leading a patrol into a German machine-gun nest. Between wars he became an Army expert on ballooning (in 1934 got to 60,613 feet in the Explorer I before she ripped apart), was subsequently trained in airships by the Navy. Also a topflight airplane pilot, in World War II he first commanded a fighter outfit in Europe, then became...
...fixed financially. He got $750,000 from 84-year-old Mrs. Emmons Elaine, daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and cousin of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, who had given away ten of her millions for various causes and charities. When & if the Compass ran through its nest egg, the chances were good that Aunt Anita would cheerfully ante up again. But last week Editor Thackrey made a sad announcement: The Compass has just about run out of cash and Aunt Anita was not available. Wrote Thackrey: "Since Mrs. Elaine's serious illness last fall...