Word: brood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite be Rodgers & Hammerstein at their best, but it is musicomedy at its most charming. Distance lends enchantment doubly-in time as well as space-to the story of an English widow who went to Siam in the 1860s to act as governess to the King's large brood, and found her most eager, childish and unruly pupil in the King himself...
...three more sons and three daughters after Mike) lived the skimpy life of a factory worker's family. Papa Di Salle made wine in the cellar, fixed the kids' shoes and cut their hair; mama perspired over steaming washtub-size pots of pasta and ruled her brood with a stern Catholic hand...
Mother of this brood is Tajomolouk Pahlevi, icy-eyed widow of "the strong man." Her main contribution is to further undermine the Shah's self-confidence by reminding him that he is not the man his father was. This encourages him to make forays into Iranian politics, beyond the limits of the constitutional monarchy...
...value as a tourist attraction at a good ?5,000 a season, the grateful Scots christened the beast Bobby and did everything they could to make him feel at home. In 1937 Dom Basil Wedge, science teacher of a local Benedictine school, reported that Bobby had hatched a brood of progeny. The little monsters, said Dom Basil, had been observed by his pupils, and each measured about three feet. At about this time the press took to calling Bobby Nessie...
Most people who brood about the horrors of war think of the bomb and forget the germs. Last week Dr. Victor H. Haas, head of the Government's Microbiological Institute, warned that 1) biological warfare is a definite possibility, and 2) the U.S. is ill-equipped at present to ward off such an attack. The nation has too few facilities even for detecting the minute organisms that an enemy might use, Dr. Haas told the College of American Pathologists in Chicago, and no organization to combat the widespread disease they might cause...