Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Castles & Eagle's Nest. Near Driburg, U.S. soldiers came upon portly Princess Armgard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, widowed mother of Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, living peacefully in a palace. The Army set up an accommodating "off limits" sign, left her undisturbed...
...public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers turn out also to be a nest for some surprisingly virulent vipers; and much of their venom is good for what's wrong with the American soul...
Shepherd Hall, which stands, until April first, at 29, 31, and 33 Holyoke Street, has been one of the University's most secluded eyesores for some 65 years. A nest of old furniture, leaky radiators, creaking stairways, and falling plaster, it has been called home, for want of a better place, by Harvard liberal organizations, student publications, and the Network since time immemorial...
...Race on the Roads. The stage was set for the big third act. To play the principal role, both Buckeyes and cavalrymen drove swiftly southward. The cavalry had mechanization and thus the big advantage. While Beightler's foot-slogging Buckeyes hurried along, cleaning out nest after nest of Japs as they went, Mudge's cavalrymen piled into trucks, jeeps and half-tracks at Guimba and ripped toward Manila over Highway...
...Mare's Nest. Like some other U.S. publishers, Hearst has been saved by the war, which shot circulation up, reduced the size of his papers, and brought him all the advertising his papers could carry. Besides sharing the general prosperity, Hearst has untangled himself from as complicated, a cat's cradle of corporate ties as ever kept a law firm out of mischief...