Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Major George Gristock's company was caught by the fire of a machine-gun nest pushed forward against its position on the Scheldt River (Belgium). Gristock went up alone under heavy fire and, though shot in both legs, wiped out the machine-gun crew at 20 yards with his automatic rifle. He did not return...
Here, besides the London area, is the home of Britain's aircraft industry. Leeds is the nest of the Blackburn Skua (naval dive bomber) and Roc (fighter). From near Birmingham come Fairey Battles (medium bombers). A plant of Fairey Aviation Co. is at Stockport in Lancashire, turns out the torpedo-launch ing Swordfish. The big Vickers long-range bombers, Wellesley and Wellington, are built at Chester on the Dee; the Avro Anson (coastal reconnaissance) at Manchester and Failsworth; Rolls-Royce engines at Derby...
...yawn. The whole nation began snooping. The Army issued a manifesto urging cooperation "in purging Japan of all espionage." Newspapers published hints, threats, alarms. Someone suggested that a British oil company had an agent at every filling station. The dowdy Japanese-British Luncheon Club was accused of being a nest of spies. It was maintained that over 400 foreign educators were really foreign operators. Salvation Army workers were gravely cross-questioned...
...prices to the ordinary buyer's range. In full operation, it will retail an armchair now priced at $29.50 for $19, a $47 chest of drawers for $24, a $15 side table for $9. The Aaltos have already attained space-saving by designing stools that nest into each other, side chairs and even armchairs that can be stacked 20 high to save space...
...send over 26 divisions; but when the test came, France kept men 48 years old under arms while Britain failed to mobilize 28-year-olds. Finally the French Minister went so far as to lump the Ally with the Enemy: "We ask [England] not to make London a nest of agitation by politicians and separatists. Our foreign policy will not be dictated by England, Germany, or Italy...