Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landing place. Hordes of his fellows bumbled through the night, making it hideous for the otherwise hardy companions of explorer Donald B. MacMillan sleeping aboard the S. S. Bowdoin at anchor in Hopedale harbor, Labrador. Some of the men, their epidermis punctured beyond endurance, clambered to the crows'-nest in vain search of relief...
...Cuckoos' Nest", Standish Hall C31, Cambridge...
...first session of the Skupstina (National Assembly) at Belgrade was as stormy as an agitated hornets' nest. Premier Nicolai Pashitch and his colleagues had, some time before, been pained to discover that Stefan Raditch's Croatian Party, which they had tried to outlaw,- was 67 strong in the Skupstina. A committee was formed to decide the legality of the election of the 67; and its decision (declaring 61 of them illegal) passed its first reading in the Chamber. It was this that caused fury to be unfurled...
...musicians found a pause in the score, laid down their instruments, stood applauding with the audience. A brilliant singer whose voice is still exquisite, an accomplished actor, he is beloved by his fellow singers and worshiped by the bravo-yelling denizens of the Metropolitan's crow's nest...
Premier Herriot's battle with the Catholic Church has brought a hornet's nest about his ears, and may make his position as Premier even more precarious. The strike of school children in Alsace-Lorraino was merely a local skirmish in the nation-wide dissention, but it was the spark which set off the fiery Chamber of Deputies into fist-fight over Herriot's policy. Both sides have lined up for a fight to the finish on the question of what position the Church shall assume in French education...