Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he came upon the Great Falls of the Missouri River in 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis found himself in the heart of the northwestern wilderness. On an island below the Falls, on a high cottonwood tree, he saw a lone eagle's nest. Lewis went on alone, toward the Sun River, and shot a buffalo. Then he saw a bear creeping toward him, ran to the river and jumped in. When he climbed out, he met an unknown brown- & -yellow animal ready to spring upon him. He shot at it. Then he was charged by three buffalo bulls...
Neither foxy Major General Claire Chennault nor the foe gave any hint where the Scorpions had their nest. But it was so remote that written communications with Chungking would take two weeks by devious routes through enemy lines. When not engaged in banging at enemy airfields or escorting Superfortresses returning from Manchuria, the Scorpions had a routine chore: shooting up locomotives on the Japs' tenuous north China railways. In two months their score...
...swam the Potomac, the Susquehanna. The moon rose in "nocturnal majesty." Still they galloped. "My British mind never properly grasped the dimensions of North America," panted the Duke; "are we still in Pennsylvania?" "That was Baltimore," said someone, as they flashed past a large town. "Egad, what a nest of ugly peasants!" snapped the Duke. In the "cold, caliginous predawn" the huntsmen forded the Delaware. By afternoon they were thundering through the heart of New Jersey. At nightfall Hugo's mare grabbed the fox with her teeth, tossed it ten feet into the air. The world's longest...
...British Government's White Paper ("Statistics Relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom"; TIME, Dec. 11), Gubbins published a White Paper of his own: "Statistics Relating to the War Effort of N. Gubbins, Esq., his Life Partner, Sally the Cat, and Six Hens at The Nest." Excerpts...
...Food and Clothing. The only additions to the weekly ration . . . were vegetables grown in the garden and the eggs provided by six hens known to readers of this column as the Six Little Suckers. The Six Little Suckers now at The Nest are not the original Suckers. Some have died of layers' cramp, some have been killed by dear little doggies, and some, weary of their concentration camp and disgusting food, have committed suicide by wedging their heads into the wire netting and twisting their own necks. But apart from the few who took the coward...