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...owls who nest there flying...
...walloped Texas Christian (34-14), Air Force (27-17), Colorado (38-13) and Kansas (42-6); against Iowa State, Wisconsin and Kansas State, they had run up a combined score of 122 to 0. But last week the No. 3-ranked Cornhuskers ran into a hornet's nest at Stillwater, Okla., and almost got stung. Trailing 17-14 in the last quarter, they marched 74 yds. in 15 plays to take the lead, 21-17, with only 38 sec. left. But Oklahoma State wasn't quite through yet. It took a desperate tackle on the 5-yd. line...
...does Mr. Otis mark his pictures tests [Oct. 1]? Should my daughter say that the lamp is odd-man-out in the group of dog kennel, lamp, beehive and birds nest? Or does he think the bird's nest stands apart because it is not manmade? A few more groups like that and my daughter might come out a moron...
...F.D.R.'s Harry Hopkins who pronounced State's men to be "cookie-pushers, pansies-and usually isolationists to boot." From a somewhat different point of view, Joe McCarthy called State "a nest of Communist traitors and Communist sympathizers." More recently, the department has been metaphorically denounced as a "bowl of jelly" (President Kennedy), drowning not only in its "booze allowance" (Congressman John Rooney) but under a flood of paper work springing from "the bureaucratic necessity that everyone has to write so much to justify his existence" (Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood), while working under an overall policy based...
Plumed Reproof. The pigeons had no legal protection. Their gregariousness was an instinctive need, and as their numbers dwindled, so did their will to live. Small surviving groups would desert their nests, leaving new-laid eggs untended. Eventually, they refused to nest...