Word: nests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later police caught the seven murderers driving the Major's car into Madrid. One hundred more suspects were rounded up from the neighborhood of the crime. The authorities stated that they had uncovered a nest of conspirators recruited "from the most sinister Marxist underworld" who called themselves "The Clan of Class Vengeance with Blood." Major Gabaldon's name was claimed to be merely one on a coded "death list" of Franco officers...
...years since Lewis was a miner. *In his heyday, in an abandoned committee room known as "The Boar's Nest," Garner regularly nicked Nick Longworth, Ogden Mills, Joe Cannon-all since dead. His biggest winnings in any one session: $15,000. Biggest loss in any one night: $6,800. Average over the years: unknown but believed very good...
...Farmer Rice and his crude trap-nest goes credit for starting the scientific breeding of hens that has made modern egg production possible. The poultry business is today close to a billion-dollar-a-year industry (fourth after cattle, hogs and dairying in U.S. agriculture's gross income). To Professor Rice, founder (1903) and retired (1934) head of Cornell's first U. S. poultry school, goes credit, too, for fathering poultry breeding as an agricultural science...
Though he writes best about orchids, shrewd Author MacDonald does not write too much about them. He senses that most readers will read his jungle success story for its account of guácharos, birds with whiskers on their beaks (when their young fall out of the nest they plop and explode), trees that put people to sleep, moths whose sting drives men insane...
...Proverb Concerning the Bird that Fouls Its Own Nest...