Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Rocking ham (who gets his just reward) and, more crucially, by Dona's reawakened sense of duty toward her children. The Lady and the Pirate agree that whereas "women will play at adventure ... for a day and a night . . ." sooner or later "they will make their nest." In a line which appeased the Hays Office and should interest the Legion of Decency, the skipper assures his sweetheart that if she returns to domesticity, "nothing has happened which will make your life a pretense...
...whole sheaf of objectives - a supply route safe from submarines; destruction of China's best troops; a political blow at Chungking which will rock the regime to its foundations. But these were secondary considerations. What they wanted most of all was to get us: to get the nest of planes that had accounted for more than half a million tons of Japanese shipping, had killed Japs by the thousands...
...hardest insect to control is the ant. Manhattan is infested with small red ants; they often nest in buildings instead of in the ground, eat sweets, meat, greasy garbage. The most successful poison against them is thallium sulfate baited with sugar - but all prewar supplies of thallium sulfate came from Germany and France...
...Winkle, having demonstrated budding heroism by breaking out of his bank cage and starting a fix-it shop in his garage, can be counted on by experienced movie-goers to bloom properly when transplanted from Benton, Calif, to the South Pacific. He does, by wiping out a machine-gun nest with a bulldozer, and comes home a hero even to his wife. Mr. Winkle has its moving moments, but the total effect is about as convincing as if professional tough guy Edward G. Robinson were to play the part of the mild little bank clerk-which he does...
Down with B.I.S. The Norwegians tried to open a hornet's nest with a sudden proposal that the Bank for International Settlements at Basle be liquidated and a commission appointed to investigate its policies during the war-a direct hint that B.I.S. deals have been pro-Nazi. The Dutch and several other European nations opposed this suggestion on grounds that B.I.S. was the first international financial institution that ever worked, and that the assets of the Bank belong to Europe's central banks, which alone have a right to liquidate...