Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill fog hung over Seattle's dark, hill-bordered Boeing Field, and ice glazed the runways. Seattle Air Charter, one of the U.S.'s brood of nonscheduled airlines, postponed the eastbound flight of its DC-3 for an hour, then two hours. The big commercial lines had canceled all flights. But the owner of the DC-3 had a big payload waiting impatiently for a ride-27 Yale students from the Northwest had chartered the plane for the trip back to New Haven after the Christmas holidays...
...third son, had a chance to buy a back-alley lumberyard in the neighboring town of Dover, but he could find no one to lend him the money. At the first of many similar family councils around the dining room table, Mother Marsh talked things over with the whole brood, finally decided to mortgage the house to back Alvin. Starting with $1,700, Alvin soon made enough to move out of the alley, set up two branches in other cities...
...change things much for the Marshes; they will still run the company. For Mother Marsh things will change even less. She still lives in the same white frame house in New Philadelphia. On Christmas Eve this year, she will do what she has always done for her grown-up brood: make them a batch of fudge, serve it around the tree, then lead a chorus of Silent Night before sending them...
...detachment clearly said that this bullet did not bear their number. As good humanitarians they would continue to "give aid" to China, with something of the air of a squire's lady bringing calf's-foot jelly to the drunken and dissolute mother of 13. If mother & brood went Communist, that was solely because of her moral disorders. One had, after all, brought the jelly; only so many calves had so many feet; and there were the deserving poor, the non-corrupt poor, the understandable poor on the west side of the village who had to have some...
...institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...