Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kaiser was a proven miracle worker on great dams, in his great shipbuilding yards. Yet the Army & Navy refused to see an ounce of sense in his new idea. For two weeks he had to fight the stubborn-nest opposition. Even after he won a go-ahead signal from Production Boss Donald Nelson (TIME, Aug. 17), the Army & Navy still scoffed...
...parachute jumps he landed squarely in the middle of an "enemy" machine-gun nest. Six soldiers rose as a man and clouted him down. "Hot damn," yelled the little corporal astride his chest, "we got a colonel...
...Mahmoud Khan. From these westernized leaders of 12,000,000 proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question. An old proverb says: "It is easier to march into Kabul than to march out again...
Reasons for unequal drafting are as complicated as a bird's nest...
...Army found how at least one phase of a mare's nest of Caribbean intrigue had worked. The head man was Gough, an ex-rumrunner supposedly turned respectable, who pulled much of his information from a blowsy Colon nightclub. Besides getting service men and canal employes to buy them drinks of colored water at 75? a drink, the cabaret girls were paid off for information they picked up on ship movements. Gough also got information from native labor sent to Panama through an agency his brother helped to run as part of Gough Bros. Enterprises...