Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposes to say. He writes his own material, utters his own opinions. Vandercook rarely goes in for prediction. His military analyses have benefited from his acute sense of geography. Says he: "The tactics of the desert, the tactics of the mountain are geographical. . . . When we take a machine-gun nest in Italy, I don't say the German lines have been smashed. In that kind of terrain, there is no such thing as the smashing of a line. You can smash a line in plains...
Retaliation with What? The popular story-and the only specific one passed by London censors-was that the Nazis had a nest of long-range rocket guns emplaced near Calais. German propagandists had been sedulously plugging the story, last week let out a picture of the gun in action. But responsible sources in London had heard the story from non-German informants, and British authorities were in no mood to laugh it off (TIME...
...Mili, 23 miles long, a nest of 100 islets, has a strongly garrisoned airfield, a lagoon that provides good anchorage for surface vessels...
...trying to restore an old practice, and in trying to fill the railroad manpower shortage, FEPC had run smack into the biggest hornet's nest in domestic politics. Franklin Roosevelt's relations with Southern Democrats have never been worse. The FEPC ruling merely poured gasoline on a fire. Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, always ready to investigate the New Deal, stood ready to probe the whole FEPC setup...
...Hornets Sting. Before noon the planes had returned to their carriers. The task forces raced to get out of Jap range. On guard above them were their own combat planes. But the hornet's nest stirred furiously. Aboard one of the U.S. carriers was A.P.'s Eugene Burns. He reported...