Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third day of rebellion, 50 partisans bring up a German fieldpiece, and in a savagely spectacular skirmish prang two enemy tanks. The German commandant takes a hard look at his position. He holds the city, but he might as well be holding a nest of vipers. The Allies are advancing, and he obviously cannot fight them and the Neapolitans too. Humbly he requests the victorious vulgarians to grant him a truce; ingloriously the Wehrmacht scuttles out of town...
...questions that troubled the typewriters of Washington were fraught, as they liked to say, with significance. Was Cuba a nest of Red missiles-or wasn't it? Had De Gaulle's intransigence undermined NATO? Could Pierre Salinger walk 50 miles? In their cogitation chambers, capital columnists pondered such weighty problems. All but one of the columnists, that is. He climbed into his car one day last week and headed for spring training in Fort Lauderdale. Fla. He bore the improbable name of Shirley Povich and an even more improbable distinction. He not only writes sports for the Washington...
...Helping tourists pays off: two weeks ago. President Howard L. Clark, 46, announced Amexco's eighth dividend increase (from 30? to 35? a quarter) in ten years. At heart, however, Amexco is not really a tourist agency but a bank. The cornerstone of its prosperity is a curious nest egg called "the Float...
...Gilbert Co., whose long-beloved Erector Set has been updated to include rocket gantries and moon vehicles, has a flying model plane, the Skyflash. Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof...
...usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches her big pink blanket grow smaller and smaller while she grows bigger and bigger. Finally Jane is made happy again when threads from her blanket warm a nest for baby birds." If the new series goes on this way, Dick, Jane, Alice and Jerry, the soporific heroes and heroines of the best-known U.S. primers, might finally be put to rest under a blanket of their...