Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the 1,000 Army pigeons in the Fort Monmouth lofts, Gimpy is as monogamous as the next old soldier. His mate is a three-year-old hen named Matilda. He ran her out of his nest four times before they settled down. Today, like any suburban pigeon, he sits on the eggs six hours a day while Matilda gets a rest...
Diplomats in the Selective Service office found a way out of this mare's-nest. Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, the deputy director of Selective Service, solemnly issued a ruling that women could indeed be appointed to draft advisory boards. These boards (usually three male lawyers) help registrants to fill out complex questionnaires, tell draftees about their rights and duties. Pay: none, except in women's rights...
Minutes later, the 77th Congress rose from its predecessor's ashes. The phoenix nest where this political rebirth occurred looked not unlike a bird cage, thanks to a network of steel girders, erected temporarily to hold up the aged and rickety Congressional roof...
...fictional sisters from Columbus, Ohio move into a characteristic Greenwich Village mare's nest-a furnished, one-room, basement apartment (with partitioned bathroom) suggesting a cross between a Gothic crypt and a rummage sale...
...escapists, while their fighter escorts took on Italian defensive aircraft. As they returned to the Ark Royal, and reconnaissance planes flew up to check the battle score, Sir James led his ships away from land, down toward Malta and their original course, well knowing what a hornets' nest the action would stir up at the Cagliari air bases...