Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in extra-curricular activities she feels like a robot. She begins to brood over remarks such as this one overheard in St. Clair's and made by a Harvard man to a Radcliffe girl: "You be quiet; you're just here to look pretty." This, of course, was followed by a declaration of the ugliness of Radcliffe women...
...Naylor has sometimes found it hard to pay the rent on their poky brick cottage and feed a family of 17, not to mention the two cats (Monty & Piddly), a mongrel dog, Billy the canary, two pigs, 16 chickens and a duck. Nevertheless, says Mrs. Naylor of her brood: "I wouldn't be without one of them...
...brood as is a bokeler or a terge...
...officer with General John H. Morgan's Raiders, died when he was only three, victim of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878. His mother, daughter of a once wealthy North Carolina family, and a woman who had been educated in a select Philadelphia female academy, raised her brood of three children alone...
...Moment. The battle had begun on Thursday afternoon. Bernard Paul Coy, 46, bank robber, buried with some 280 other incorrigibles in the tomb of steel and concrete, had had plenty of time to brood in nine years of imprisonment. Alcatraz, with its electric eyes which searched men, its hand-picked guards, its isolation in the middle of the Bay, was supposed to be escape-proof...