hot bed

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it.

In recent years the North Sinai desert has become a hot bed for Islamic militants.

It appeared that notwithstanding the exquisite beauty of the country around Aladyn, it was a hot-bed of fever and dysentery.

Perhaps foreign air and warmer climates develop, like a hot-bed, our innate instinct of destructiveness.

In the meantime have a hot bed of coals, then dust a little flour on the bottom of one of your frying pans.

At its close the University was a hot-bed of Puritanism, where the fiercest tenets of Calvin reigned supreme.

He found Cairo "a regular hot-bed of intrigues," and among not only the Egyptian, but also the European officials.