Word: brood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film Barry Lyndon. The movie, based on William Thackeray's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, features Ryan O'Neal as a young Irish rogue looking for wealth and Marisa as the countess who supplies it by marrying him. The bathtub, where she goes to brood after catching Ryan flirting with another girl, proved to be as annoying as it was authentic. "They had to keep rilling it with hot water. And since there was no plug, they had a lot of pipes carrying water out of the room." Now recovered from the pink-and-wrinkled look, Berenson...
...threatened their families. A trial jury later acquitted eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant...
...girl said that her uncle had shipped her and about 20 other nieces and nephews to the U.S. to join relatives; her mother is living in the U.S. and is now married to an American. About five days before the flight, the girl said, the colonel's brood was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Saigon. Good connections and an ample store of cash served other Vietnamese well too. At least two well-to-do Saigon families managed to put their children upon U.S.-bound planes as "orphans"-and to accompany them on the trip as "escorts...
Even blue-collar workers, however, often disguise the real anguish of their joblessness from friends and their own children. Birdie Gaston, 62, who lives in Harlem, was laid off as a packager for Alfred Dunhill, Inc. a week before Christmas. "I brood a lot, and I hurt inside," she says, but she has attempted to hide those feelings from her relatives. She feels "ashamed" that she has to collect unemployment compensation ($63 a week). Most of all, she misses the job. "When I am working, I feel 24 years old. When I am not working, I feel...
...ahead, obviously the best thing Ford has going for him is his unimperial presidential temperament. As his aide Bob Hartmann puts it: "The Democrats would love for the President to lose his cool, get mad and have a temper tantrum. But he doesn't look back and brood. His philosophy is that each time you huddle, you line up for a new play regardless of whether you've gained or lost on the last...