Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jeweler's apprentice in Orange County, N.Y., didn't like it and stowed away on a ship. He found seafaring more to his taste, and before many years was running a steamboat on the Rio Grande. During the war with Mexico he laid by a nest egg hauling supplies by boat to General Zachary Taylor's troops. Six years later, on the advice of his great & good friend Robert E. Lee, then a lieutenant colonel of Engineers, Captain King bought 54,000 acres along Santa Gertrudis Creek...
...That was war," they say, and wave a hand to dismiss even the atrocities. They flock to Berchtesgaden by the thousand for pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
Albert E. Marre 1L, member of the Screen Writers Guild, sighs wearily when asked whether Hollywood is a nest of Communists, as the House Un-American Affairs Committee proclaims. "You're nobody in Hollywood unless you have money," he says with a touch of cynicism, "and if you have money you're not a Communist...
...Tawny Pipit (Rank; Prestige) is -to the English-an exceptionally rare species of titlark. When a pair of them nest in an English field, for the second time on record, World War II becomes about as important, at least to England's more avid ornithologists, as a movie organist's spot between features. England's lay bird lovers are almost as deeply stirred; the whole village of Lipsbury Lea is determined that the pipits shall hatch their brood in peace...
...almost all the birds they can hold. What the guano birds need now, says Señor Llosa, is more staging areas. The climate of southern Peru is favorable; the sea is full of fish. But there are virtually no islands there, and when the birds try to nest on the mainland, foxes eat their eggs. So Señor Llosa is building ten-foot walls across the peninsulas, making artificial islands for the birds to use as bases. He even dreams of parking the birds some day far at sea on anchored, floating islands...