Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done much for Moscow; he had come to think of himself as a native Muscovite. He was not a sentimental man; he would not cry over the white city's antiquities, Imperial Russia's Golden Head, the 40-times-40 spires. But he would brood if anything happened to the parachute tower in the Park of Culture and Rest. He would be angry when the new buildings, neither garishly cubist nor grotesquely baroque because he personally had censored the architects' renderings, were bombed. He, for whom the beautiful miniature locomotive at the Technical Institute was named, would...
Hopes for a Dorm victory hang on "Mutt Ray" Saltonstall, the sterling dorm center, and the intricate plays with which basketballer Ed Buckley has provided his brood...
Latest addition to Harvard's brood of bawling all-aid-some-aid-no-aid groups is the Harvard League for A Declared War, founded by E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, who claims that national self-respect requires that we declare war so as to "unite all Americans in the spirit of sacrifice for the common cause...
...Youth Orchestra began to sprout last week.* In a Manhattan rehearsal room, under the guidance of a young, handsome, kinetic radio conductor, Raymond Paige, a band of 75 "Young Americans" made a merry din. The Young Americans are vowed to do for U.S. popular music what the Stokowski brood do for the longhairs, are moreover organized specifically to combat subversive ideas. Their sponsor is the League of Young Americans, Inc., whose aim is to rally the one-sixth of the U.S. population that is in its twenties...
Sponsorship was not television's main worry. It had good reason to brood about its priorities listing, which is so low that there is not much chance that many sets will be added to the estimated 4,500 now in operation...