Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas' "Long Tom" Connally, whose Foreign Relations subcommittee sat like senescent setting hens on a nest of postwar resolutions for 202 days, last week hatched the egg-a 75-word Resolution which cheepingly proposed that the U.S. join in supporting international authority and international peace...
Before the three admirals lay the conquest of the world's greatest ocean. For almost two months Pacific Fleet units had been boldly poking into the "hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
...Foggia (pop. 58,000), the Allies have a traffic junction second only to Naples. There the Axis had built a huge nest of airdromes...
...WOMAN IN RED - Anthony Gilbert - Smith & Durrell ($2). A jobless and desperate English girl finally gets a place in a sinister London household ruled by a red-wigged old lady with murderous intentions. Private Detective Crook rescues the damsel and clears out the villainous nest. An excellent thriller...
...across the Southern Pacific front, air attacks against the Japanese intensified. The Fifth Air Force struck again at Wewak, to which the Japs rushed another supply of planes after Kenney's pilots wiped out their nest three weeks ago. Flying Fortresses destroyed ten Jap bombers on the ground, knocked out probably 59 fighters of 70-80 that rose to intercept them...