Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pawky, pink-faced Nathaniel Gubbins lives with his buxom, red-topped wife, his two daughters, and assorted animals in a cozy house in Surrey which he calls "The Nest." Each week, an army of Britons (including Winston Churchill) regularly read Nat Gubbins' column "Sitting on the Fence" in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. There Britain's most popular columnist sets out, through various mouthpiece characters (including himself) his often tart, always British comments on his life and hard times...
...cuspidors, garters, hearses, thimbles? Very simple, say the Rigbys: collecting is one of the basic instincts-animal as well as human (the proprietor of a London restaurant spent years blaming souvenir-hunting patrons for the disappearance of napkins; eventually he discovered that a fat brown rat had built a nest in the wall of the restaurant, there amassed a collection...
Regent Bullington: "Dr. Rainey discovered a nest of homosexuals in the faculty as early as September 1943. He did not disclose it to any member of the board until eight months later, despite the rules requiring immediate reporting of such conditions...
...front was an attackers' nightmare, composed of bridgeheads within bridgeheads, like a magician's nest of boxes (see map). At first the Germans had held on a line from Heyst, along the Leopold Canal, thence eastward to the suburbs of Antwerp. While one force of Canadians cleared the outskirts of the city, another struck across the Canal east of Aardenburg. The enemy was dug in, in trenches cut into the sides of the dikes, and had to be routed by intense artillery, mortar and small-arms fire, and finally flamethrowers...
Young, globe-trotting Herbert Hoover Jr., 41, arrived in Washington from the Middle East and promptly hurried to the complicated grey bird's-nest that is the State Department. Hoover's firm, United Engineering Corp., S.A., has been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian...