Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago when he was with the New York Giants. One fat pitch (clouted for a home run with the count two balls and no strikes) did it. Giants' Manager Mel Ott bawled him out in front of the whole team and fined him $500. Bill began to brood. "Yuh don't feel like pitching when a fine's hanging over your head," he said. The fans jeered. Deafness and all, says Bill, "When 30,000 razzberries pour down on you, you hear...
...Alis settles down to yearly pregnancies, frequent miscarriages, and incessant worries about the financial decline of the manor, the fruits of which her self-indulgent husband squanders on pomp, tournaments and the Crusades. Before old age, each has one fierce extramarital fling -and two bastards are added to the brood of infants at gloomy Linnieres...
...both parents tried to "prevent us from becoming expatriate mongrels." As the years passed, easygoing Papa became fairly well off and brought his family to a comfortable home in Paris. But it was Mamma, tiny and handsome, who staved off the early crises and somehow managed to discipline her brood of bilingual barbarians...
Phil Murray did not like to see his scrappy brood of C.I.O. kids kick each other around. But Papa Phil could not have been very displeased at some of last week's infighting. Some of the C.I.O.'s Red-eyed bully boys-whom he does not like-were getting their lumps...
...Mother Russia and her chicks have not publicly received the Markos government into the Communist brood. Their aid is still covert-providing training camps, bases of operations, military supplies, food, funds. But since Markos' proclamation of his "Free" Greek government, all the Communist countries have publicly set up societies to help Markos...