Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yards when he was seven. Last September after the Salerno landing his battalion was pinned down by machine-gun and mortar fire. Disregarding a broken instep, the big Indian advanced alone, killed two Germans who fired at him from a nearby house. Then he slipped behind a machine-gun nest, killed its two occupants, picked off another German in another nest, captured one more. This week he was on his way home to marry a farmer's daughter...
...some cases the ratios have little to do with relative combat efficiency. If the enemy puts up little air opposition but the U.S. air force is active on dangerous missions-such as supporting ground troops in the Mediterranean, bombing a nest of antiaircraft in Rabaul, or flying in fog in the Aleutians-the ratios are deceptively unfavorable...
...back to headquarters okay and then, I don't know why, but I volunteered to help clean out another machine-gun nest. That night was a real show...
...Hitler needed to do was to let his whiskers sprout and sit on a nest of thunderbolts and naked swords, thinking of plague and pestilence and rapine and slaughter and slavery for the vanquished, to be a fit understudy for the vengeful, murderous Jehovah of the forepart of the Old Testament...
...Rhymes with idle. Literally "hair-nest," so called because hairs grow inside the cyst. A pi lonidal cyst is supposed to result from imperfect fusion of the two halves of a body in fetal life...