Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world-shaking meeting began, UNO seemed oddly like a setting hen with a nest in a threshing machine. It had a place out of the rain, a good food supply and a spot to brood on its clutch of world problems. But UNO seemed almost as preoccupied with keeping its beak out of the big city's machinery as in global meditation...
Russian policy looked like a crazy quilt of contradiction; but it was not. Danes rejoiced as the Red Army began to leave Bornholm Island last week. (Some of the Russian soldiers carried grandfather clocks on their backs.) Russia was suspected of stirring up another hornets' nest for Iran by inciting the Kurds to revolt, but promised to leave Iran within six weeks "if nothing unforeseen happens." The Supreme Soviet ordered six more classes of the Red Army to be demobilized by September...
...Staff. Able, ailing 59-year-old "Hap" Arnold had been retired after 42 years of soldiering, 34 years of it in the air, seven years of it as boss of the air forces. The Army's birdmen had flown a long way from the Army's nest in that time, would soon fly away, never to return. Tooey Spaatz, sure by all signs to boss the U.S.'s first separate Air Force, had big plans for the future...
Jimmy Byrnes' chief aim in going to Moscow was to clear the air. That meant getting a Big Three agreement on how to deal with the atom. With no trouble, Jimmy got it. But he ran into a senatorial hornets' nest just the same...
...Canadian flyer, an ex-prisoner of the Nazis, with an ugly scar on his close-cropped head and a frozen scowl on his face. He is out to get the dirty collaborationist who murdered his young French wife. The chase takes him to South America and into a nest of fashionably dressed, fast-living people who are plainly plotting the next Nazi war of aggression. This shady and suspicious-looking set goes in rather noisily for hard liquor, extra-marital kissing, and murder. Before the picture ends, Hero Powell, with the highest possible moral purposes, has done his share...