Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital is tall, boyish Edward Archie Mclntosh, who cleaned out a Jap machine-gun nest after his own scouting party had been wiped out and he himself had been horribly wounded in the right leg. Although he is cheerful and chipper, his friends reported that his main worry now is whether "my girl will like a fellow with only...
...second period, the B. U. goalle, Bud Stalker, had his three front teeth knocked out by a puck off Mechem's stick. Having no substitute goalie, Bill Sanders, who started at defense, took over in the nest. In the last period Harvard chalked up five goals to pulverize the Terriers...
...Civil Air Patrol, a chick of the defense program, hatched in the disorderly nest of the Office of Civilian Defense, last week began to look like an eaglet...
Even twenty nations can do a good deed for the cause of the democracies by axing relations with the Axis. Each Nazi diplomatic and consular post in this hemisphere is a nest of intrigue and a center of information, and tossing out all their staffs would deprive Germany of one of its chief military and ideological weapons. Enemy agents would have less chance to spy on the defenses of the Americas, and the sources of funds and propaganda which have supported the many, cells of fifth columnism in south America would be virtually wiped...
...intervention-they would be lost. There was not a man in the lines who did not know it. General Douglas MacArthur had said that the islands could be held, but only if their supply was continuous and decisive. He had also often told his young officers: "Any machine-gun nest can be captured if the attacker is willing to pay the price. So can the Philippines be captured if the enemy is willing to write off the losses...