Word: nesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Distressed." Knudsenhillman still had troubles to worry about. Scarcely had OPM mopped its brow when word came that a fourth International Harvester plant, the big Chicago McCormick Works, had shut down. And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder...
...Asiatics," i.e., Japan. The metaphor-of-the-week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain-has placed its egg in the dove's nest." The egg, Major Akiyama went on to explain, was "the fortification of Singapore, the arrival of Australian troops in Malaya and the impending fortification of Guam and Samoa...
...President Mikhail Kalinin there were worse bugs than those in the Soviet production machinery. Said he of his comrades: "They sit in a nest of bedbugs and discuss deep-mindedly what will be the peculiarities of men living under full-fledged Communism. They pronounce highbrow speeches on the education of children and breed bedbugs as best they...
...gate which Tom Yawkey has been getting. This would be a sounder solution of B.C.'s problem than the proposed Boston municipal stadium, "The Beanbowl." Harvard, too, would gain. Without any increased emphasis on the brawny side of college life, the H.A.A. could get a golden nest-egg to tide the athletics program through the lean days ahead...
Peddie and Goodreault both thought that the plan would provide a good financial nest-egg for the Harvard Athletic Association. Morro, in addition to favoring the plan, said that he would like to play Harvard, if possible. When this suggestion was made, a long pause followed which was broken when Joe Gardella coughed, fumbled with his collar, and said, "It's getting hot in here...