Word: brood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floral wonders, Ike admired the azaleas ("I love those") and an enormous (3 ft. across) African violet, fingered some rare orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
...quoted as saying: "Bulldogs sit and brood-he never plays . . . Jock is the most disobedient dog-he just doesn't give a damn . . ." Perhaps I may have said all those things in an hour's time. However, I am most sure that I also said a great deal more about this lovable old breed. A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world. They love to play. They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient...
...exterior, they often have a frail constitution. They are shortlived (six years is considered old). Most important, they are unsociable. "Jock is probably the most disobedient dog I've ever known," said his diminutive (120 lbs.) owner, California Physician John A. Saylor. "He never plays. Bulldogs sit and brood-when they're not sleeping, that is. Jock spends nine-tenths of his waking hours asleep." With fine disdain Jock stood in the ring while a silver-blonde Afghan, a sealyham terrier, an English springer spaniel, a Yorkshire terrier and a boxer competed with him for best in show...
...other half of the Chamberlain brood-two sisters, five brothers, aged 20 to 39-all seem perfectly healthy...
...busy; Mexico's government has repeatedly cautioned its numerous Guatemalan exiles to refrain from "political activity." Arbenz' arrogant refusal to do so has left a bad taste with many Mexicans; the leading daily Excelsior last week sourly cartooned him as a hen flying off and leaving a brood of chicks marked with the hammer and sickle. Stopping in Paris en route to Lausanne, he told reporters: "I am not renouncing politics. I will remain in politics all my life." But, mindful of the rumors, he cautiously added: "I have no political projects at the present...