Word: brood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adversity does not deter Ford-he has lost too often for that. In his senior year, the Michigan football team dropped all but one game. While he was the minority leader in the House, Ford was defeated time and again. He does not brood about a failure, nor does he second-guess himself after making a decision. His mind just does not work that way, and never has. He is simple and direct, and by nature optimistic, a feeling understandably reinforced by the experience of his own life. Ten years ago -five years ago-it would have been inconceivable...
...something more to life, he wonders dimly, than crawling up the salary ladder, moving from suburb to classier suburb? If the process by which a novel becomes a bestseller is not simply a random phenomenon, like the winning of a lottery-a dubious proposition that wise old publishers brood about-then Gray Flannel owed its vogue to the fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking the way Tom was. Presumably they must have liked the novel's reassuring answer, which is, more or less, cherish your wife, vote yes on school bond issues, and existential despair...
...years ago not because he wanted to but because he was banished for embezzling post office funds. After settling his family in Maryland, across the bay from Annapolis, he set himself up as a schoolmaster and died when Peale was only nine. Peale's mother moved her brood to Annapolis, where she did embroidery to sustain her five children and apprenticed Charles (the eldest) to a saddlemaker at the age of twelve. By 20, Peale had married and gone into debt to open his own saddlery. He also diversified into upholstery, harnessmaking and silversmithing...
...dogs, my brood, how they're hungry all the time...
...sinner, he does not amount to much, but he does have that Nazi busi ness to brood about...