Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost walked into a machine-gun nest. The five sleeping Germans manning it slept...
Tall, bespectacled Brendan Bracken, whose hair looks like a pinkish bird's nest, last week met some 100 members of the U.S. press in Manhattan, played an adroit game of ask-me-another. Said...
...week, when Lieut. General George Kenney decided to force a showdown for air control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will continue until either the Jap's or our air force is wiped out." After four days of onslaughts by heavy, high-flying bombers and tree-shaving B-25s, the Jap force, desperately reinforced...
...dwindling force effectively, forcing the Allies to fight for every town. The German soldiers, too, although they must have realized for days that Sicily was lost-and apparently were beginning to realize that the war might be lost-put up a bitter last-ditch fight in every machine-gun nest...
Women remember the late Eugenie Montijo as a certain Empress of France who wore a tilted wren's-nest hat which achieved a brief renascence...