Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snooping for bigger new. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only foreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back word that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him: fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital,--strictly in spite of himself...
...clock? What goes on here?" Vag exploded, tortuously disentangling himself from his bed-covers and reeling over to the infernal machine. Feeling for the magic button, he pushed it way down somewhere into the springy depths of the clock, and blindly felt his way back to the empty warm nest between the sheets. His heavy head sank into the soft pillow, and lying there, he opened his eyes and stared mistily at the ceiling. "Still going in circles," he muttered half-aloud. "That party last night . . . where on earth is Lechmere? But it was swell . . . gee, she was swell . . . still...
...enemy, a man fights for three chief reasons: 1) loyalty to his comrades and his unit (the highest type, long exemplified in the Marines, where organization consciousness is highly developed), 2) because he is led out of confusion and "will follow a stranger to attack a machine-gun nest if . . . officers are gone, if the stranger speaks and acts with assurance," 3) because there is literally nothing else...
Into this nest of editorial 3A youthfulness Managing Editor Stewart last week dropped the baby of them all. As city editor, to replace 49-year-old Bruce Grant (gone to London to open a new Times bureau), he named Karin Walsh, 28, who has been Sunday editor for two years. Under him, Sunday edition's circulation has zoomed from 367,000 to 468,000 (last month...
...kitchen, obligingly helps her jettison the body in a remote telephone booth. But the corpse turns up again in the study next morning. After this, nothing is very surprising, including Diana's and Brian's escape in a stolen car and their encounter with a nest of Nazi conspirators in a Scottish castle. The Scottish proceedings end where they sometimes seem to have begun-in a distillery...