Word: brood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear people talk down at the cafe, you'd think we were being invaded by hostile aliens from a grade-B science fiction movie. A new brood of 13-year cicadas, estimated to be in the millions, has crawled up out of the ground in a big part of the country's midsection. Its members are trying their wings, singing like crazy and mating in a very public way. In a few weeks they will die off and be gone, but for now they are quite the topic of conversation...
...particular region are presumed to be of the same origin and appear in synchrony in early summer. In Northern states and along the eastern edge of the Great Plains, they appear every 17 years; in the Southern and Mississippi valley states, it takes 13 years for a new brood to emerge...
...alive." Now he is trying to make up those silent years. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, he turns out several columns a week for Latin newspapers, including the Spanish-language section of the Miami Herald. Unlike many other exiles -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn is his example -- he does not brood over the past or look wistfully toward the place of his birth. "I do not admire people who suffer professionally. I want to be a new man. I am eager to be alive. My duty is to write...
...EVEN THE BEST families, there are bound to be a few bucktoothed, cross eyed mutts. Among William Shakespeare's dramatic brood, Love's Labour's Lost is one of the runts of the litter an overlong, obscurely written, not too funny nerd of a play...
...break my hand before I had hurt him." Nichols admitted he was slow to realize this amounted to "abusive" behavior. When the weekend recess began at the completion of all testimony, the jury was left with few facts to argue but a great many unpleasant things to brood about...