Word: nestful
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...modest share of the world's old masters. It is not easy: "The penalty of owning great works of art, or even itsy-bitsy ones, was that the minute anything out-of-the-way happened, your thoughts flew to them like a mother bird to the nest...
...trappings of this fine-feathered nest, and in come crosses and furniture that would be too severe for a monastery. Another crisis occurs when the boy's real mother, hastily recruited for the occasion, is delayed. Very well, Zaza will do his hilarious best to fill in - even though he is, if anything, less able to play a straight woman than a straight...
...insignificant in itself--add up to a carefully plotted course for the University's future. Conservatism, stability and more stability are ever behind the choices the Corporation makes. Although Harvard's phenomenal $1.4 billion endowment--nearly twice as large as Yale's the nearest competitor--looks like a sturdy nest egg to envious officials of other universities, Corporation members see only inflation and recession eating away at it. A gargantuan $250 million fund drive will kick off this fall to shore up the endowment so they can rest easy once more...
...interesting to consider the words of the biblical Prophet Obadiah: "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and set thy nest among the stars, from thence will I pull thee down, sayeth the Lord...
...divorce and even goes to bed with her ex from time to time. Estelle (Mary Beth Hurt), the most recently separated, is bewildered and scarcely able to cope with the enormity of the experience. An orphan who married an orphan, she had a glowing faith that building a nest would be the golden tie that binds forever...