Word: nested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sean O'Faolain, famed Irish short-story writer, novelist (A Nest of Simple Folk) and biographer (A Life of Daniel O'Connell), loosed a blistering attack on Autoantiamericanism, a word of his own construction. Writing in the Irish monthly The Bell, he was addressing himself chiefly to his own countrymen, but his message would make interesting reading for a lot of other "auto-antis." Excerpts...
...began to tell of his experiences at the Naval Academy. "I loved the midshipman cruises. I loved everything about Annapolis. I cried the day I left. It was like being pushed out of a nest. I was there five years...
...Park is zoned. Each zone has its own name and appropriate Work of Art. Zones of course vary in price, and within the zones the prices vary according to their proximity to the Work of Art . . There is Lovers' Nest, zoned about a very, very beautiful marble replica of Rodin's famous statue, The Kiss. We have double plots there at $750 the pair." -Evelyn Waugh, in The Loved...
...hear you are at Harvard for a year. You certainly know how to feather your nest, and I'm happy for you. But what I'm curious about is this: Are you learning anything practical up there in Cambridge or is it just a mess of theory which will look good in your record at promotion time...
Seoul, it seemed, was not to be yielded easily. Two South Korean patrols that crossed the river to reconnoiter were driven back by salvos of mortar and artillery fire. Associated Press Correspondent Stan Swinton, who flew over Seoul in a spotter plane, reported the capital a "hornet's nest" of entrenchments, gun positions and Red defenders...