Word: brood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...queens builds her nest in the hold of a freighter, but is destroyed when the ship is sunk by naval gunfire. When the other and her brood are traced to the 700 miles of sewer conduit that crisscross beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, martial law is declared, and a jeep-borne army contingent roars in to wipe the things...
...Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, a glittering white mosque and a Hindu temple, each on its separate hilltop. Makerere College, the university of East Africa, occupies hill No. 5; on the sixth live 2,000 Britons, communing-or so it seems-with Kipling and Queen Victoria, whose spirits brood above the sahibs' hill. But the summit that matters most in Kampala and in all Buganda is No. 7. There, in his white palace, ringed with pacing sentries and a ten-foot-high stockade of elephant grass, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda got an urgent message last week...
...Student Council acted hastily last week in speaking for the entire undergraduate body, the proposed Council poll to determine student opinion scarcely seems better-planned. The poll, two questions to determine whether professors are indoctrinating their brood to Communism, was designed to serve a double purpose. Actually, however, the poll serves neither. Representing only ten percent of the College, the results will be too inconclusive for an effective answer to McCarthy's charges. And the nature of the poll is too general and vague to be of use to the faculty. The important aspect of the poll then...
Both the nosebleed and the dream occurred before the airplane had been invented, and although he is an extremely modest and practical man, Sikorsky cannot help but brood about them. There are times, in fact, when he experiences an uneasy amazement at his own mental processes?particularly at a sense of intuition that has nudged him to many a successful engineering conclusion that neither he nor the science of aerodynamics could explain rationally until years afterward...
...want to root around and brood for a while, it is possible to conclude that the picture isn't quite perfect. Which it isn't. Not quite. But I doubt if that's going to bother anyone. As an immediate experience it is overpowering; as a lasting work of art it is memorable...