Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most advanced headquarters on the northern front. Churches and other thick-walled structures had been turned into small fortresses, with mortars and machine guns on the street level, tommy guns poking from every opening in the upper stories. Slowly the Red Army pushed on, clearing out every gun-bristling nest, every German battery station. After 19 days Rzhev was largely in Russian hands, its fall seemed near...
Through the night and into the next morning the Japs met Carlson's men with rifles, machine guns and automatic grenade-throwers. Each machine gun and grenade nest had to be exterminated, to the last Jap. Corporal Edward R. Wygel of Milner, Idaho killed all but two Japs at a machine gun with a hand grenade. He then killed one of the two with a pistol, the other with his knife...
...artillery could lay down a curtain of fire offshore. Along new military roads and railways German reinforcements could be swiftly concentrated against the attackers (see p. 29). After the assault and occupation would come the problem of withdrawal-for this was a raid, not an invasion. Dieppe was a nest of German strength, as General Roberts well knew. A little after 4 a.m. the attackers closed in on the shore...
...Bits of Heaven," a U.S. traveler in 1936 called a pregnant nest of Pacific islets which the U.S. sooner or later must take or neutralize. The islands: the Truk group (see map) in Japan's mandated Carolines...
...this year no one has died of the plague. Usually one or two persons a year are attacked-a woman in California who buried a chipmunk; a boy in Idaho who stole a magpie's egg from a nest littered with half-eaten remains of ground squirrels; a hunter in Wyoming who bagged a jack rabbit. The disease is chiefly transmitted from beast to beast and beast to man, by fleas. In human beings it takes three forms, identical in cause and in effect (probably death within a week...