Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the lofty splendors Linger o'er thy nest, And the passioning grandeurs Know some ritual blest Thy magic hours seek altars, which are to God behest...
...best possible equipment helps pre serve that nest egg. The Cadet Corps's intense "school spirit" provides both winning inspiration and a constant brake against inflated egos. Keeping the team razor-sharp despite the heavy curricular chores is the nut that has to be cracked...
Jews, Arabs and Britons were thoroughly aroused. To those who realized that the U.S. had economic as well as humanitarian interests in the Near East, the President looked like a man with his head in a hornets' nest...
Splitting and redoubling its complications with the speed of a Stakhanovite amoeba, neat and artificial as a nest of concentric Chinese boxes, this hypersymmetrical rake's progress is as stylized in its performance as in its structure. It is more like a puppet show than a flesh & blood comedy, and its dialogue is in dialect as formal as the colloquy of Mandarins. The puppets often strike tableaux which have charm, irony and even beauty, of a kind. But it is a kind so rigid and remote from simple human warmth that honest laughs come few & far between...
...Captured at the sixth battle of Tobruk." (That flag hung on our wall for weeks until a stenographer in a neighboring building saw it from across the street, warned the F.B.I, that there was a "nest of Nazis" in the TIME & LIFE Building...