Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nothing like it had happened since Martin Luther called the Roman Catholic Church "the Devil's nest" and a "den of thieves." The Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the Church of England, announced last week that on his way home from a tour of the Middle East he intends to stop off in Rome and pay a courtesy call on Pope John XXIII...
...only its sheer size kept it from being blown up and quarried for stone like many another great church. In 1794 the lead roof was stripped to make bullets, and during the liberation of France in World War II six Nazis used its north tower as a snipers' nest. War and religious strife have broken the hands and heads of saints, smashed panes of irreplaceable glass. Even worse wreckers were the 19th century restorers who plastered the apse with inanities-candelabra that cast no light, bas-reliefs that conceal the beauties of the structure. Yet today Chartres again stands...
...soon had tots answering the roll in alphabetical order. At midmorning lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make a little nest on the desk with our arms." Then she played hi-fi classical records, hoping to spur "appreciation for music throughout later life...
U.C.L.A.'s new Sproul Hall, scheduled to open this fall, was planned from the start as cohabitational. In separate wings for opposite sexes, Sproul's 400 men and 400 girls will share a beige brick nest atop a Westwood hill...
...changes of temperature would foul enemy sonar; they practiced with the Navy's new, very low-frequency radio gear with which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They became adept at using Polaris' SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System), the mare's nest of gyros and electronic equipment that locates George Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants for checking on the SINS; there was secret optical alignment gear for checking...