Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company, he had Maggie Gannon. Maggie was a husky, black-haired woman who had borne a brood of children over at Stony Point before she went to live with Gil 20 years ago. Gil called her his housekeeper...
...nearly half a century, Pablo Picasso's giant shadow 'had lengthened over Paris. So far, none of the brood of younger painters who had mushroomed at his feet had grown quite clear of that shadow. But last week Andre Marchand, who has long been considered one of Picasso's most promising followers, showed signs. The cause of those signs was the talk of Paris...
Medicine, thinks Maine, may be on the wrong track in its general approach to alcoholism and insanity. He suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
...Norwegian. His father wanted Pier to marry a Frisian girl. "Soan, dy faem is net goed genoch [Son, that maiden is not good enough]," he said. Pier raged at the old man's nonsense about Ald Fryslan on the North Sea shore. So his father went out to brood, looking across the valley at the Hills of the Lord which he had first seen...
...Eagle's Brood was worth every nickel it cost. It was written by CBS Writer-Director Robert Lewis Shayon, 32, after a 9,000-mile, $2,000 coast-to-coast tour of U.S. slums and prisons. "What I saw," says Shayon, "hit me between the eyes." His script, as radio rarely does, hit listeners between the ears...