Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after election, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright stirred up a hornet's nest. In Philadelphia, venerable birthplace of the Constitution, Democrat Fulbright made a bold suggestion. The Republicans had captured Congress; why not let them take over completely? Said...
...themselves to seeing their sheep blown off the cliffs; Faroe ponies (who double as sheepdogs) have adapted themselves to eating fish heads when grass is scarce; and the Faroe sea birds have learned to lay cone-shaped eggs that roll around, but not off, the narrow ledges where they nest...
...taken his seat, that newsmen noticed much about him that was still youthful and perhaps more impressive than even before: the graceful, aquiline head; the quality of finality, of definitive-ness-and his eyes, which one of O'Neill's friends calls "the crow's-nest of his soul...
...dirty seas of Europe's politics, across an equally turbulent ocean to haven in a free land. There was a not-so-proud moment when the Linda ran aground off Quarantine, and hung there high & dry until the tide refloated her. Soon she was tied up in a nest with two sister craft which had ended the same daring voyage within the previous month...
...such pleasures, like the ring on the merry-go-round, cannot be enjoyed at leisure. Marlowe's more serious work takes him to a glass-eyed bookseller's orgy-nest just in time to find him dead, with Miss Vickers, squiffed in a Chinese gown, giggling over the remains. He takes the heiress home and hurries on to watch a painfully inept blackmailer (Louis Jean Heydt) catch a bellyful of lead; no time later, Marlowe is kicking the killer in the face...