Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That sounded as if a nest of superspies had been uncovered. Not so; the 40 were small fry. Furthermore, in at least some of the cases "close connections" meant nothing more ominous than suspicion of being a member of some Communist front organization. In a few cases evidence of disloyalty to the U.S. was found. Among other things, membership in the Communist Party is labeled disloyal...
...Agents Bergman and Grant fly down to Rio and look into the suspicious activities of a German-controlled cartel. They barely have time to discover their love for each other when patriotism intervenes and demands that Ingrid marry Boss Nazi Claude Rains. Marriage lands her right into a Nazi nest and the threat of slow poison in her morning coffee. If anyone in the audience is not sitting up in his theater chair by this time he is Hitchcock-proof...
Said Joe Curran ruefully, in the third person singular: "While Curran may have been elected this time, if he doesn't get into line, the next elections he is liable to be up in the crow's-nest." More likely, thought some of Joe's friends, he would be hanging from the yardarm...
Juan Perón's wife Eva went shopping in Buenos Aires for a new carpet for the presidential nest, picked...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...