Hatched
adjective B2- Fired from one's job for violating the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in certain political activities.
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A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.
A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.
why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?”
“I was not a day too soon,” he said, for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose.
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