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Word: nesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury Secretary Morgenthau had underestimated by some $2,963,000,000 the actual Treasury receipts of $44,149,000,000. He had overestimated by some $2,207,000,000 actual expenditures of $93,744,000,000. Further, the Treasury ended up the year with an ostrich-sized nest egg of $19,406,000,000-enough to run the war for two and a half months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Wrong, As Usual | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In this Fateful Hour | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Private James O'Banner, a mild-mannered, youngster from Memphis, Tenn., was the first man to get a Nip. His carbine snap shot stirred up a hornet's nest. A dozen Negroes were slain, 25 were wounded. But 30 Japanese were dead before the melee was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Tan Yanks | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Autocrat Holmes presided over a family (he had two boys, one girl) who chattered like "a nest of wrens" (whoever was wittiest at table was awarded an extra spoon ful of marmalade). "Don't take it so hard, Wendell," said Uncle John Holmes when the doctor wrote whimsical articles about his son in the Atlantic Monthly. "You will get used to your father. I did, long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Dissenter | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...from the loss of his right arm, shot off at Anzio two months ago. His medal was won in another Italian action last November. Despite many wounds in his side, chest, face and hands, Footsy Britt advanced with eight men, personally killed five Germans, wiped out a machine-gun nest, fired five clips (75 rounds) of carbine ammunition, more rifle ammunition, threw 32 grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MEDALS: Two Soldiers and a Marine | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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