Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood & Cobwebs. Envy was a green-skinned wraith with a nest of snakes in its heart. Pride was a big-bosomed balloon about to burst-presumably, with pride...
...piece of impudence," cried tall, gimlet-eyed Lord Vansittart, 68, in Britain's House of Lords last week. Bristling with rage, the onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office told his peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina...
...years since Britain wrested Hong Kong from the Chinese during the Opium War, the rocky island which the Chinese contemptuously called a "penguin's nest" has become a traders' and tourists' delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...
...purpose of this move is to have the tailbacks, Hardy cox and Bob Du-back, who are pretty light, playing the quarterback position when the team uses T plays. Cox is also probably the nest passer on the squad...
...Boeing Airplane Co. is famed around the world as the nest which hatched the Flying Fortress and the B29. But citizens of its home town, Seattle, think of it in more practical terms-it is their biggest payroll and a financial well which waters the city and a great part of the country around it. This summer, with a postwar peak of 26,000 employees working on B-50s, on doubledecked Strato-cruisers and on sub assemblies for its jet-powered B-47, it was supporting one in seven families in Seattle...