Word: brood
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...value of home purchases rose by 20% shortly after the war. The most visible members of the exiled élite are Rana and Raghad Hussein, Saddam's daughters, who arrived in the summer of 2003 after King Abdullah II granted them asylum. At first they lived with their collective brood of nine children in a royal guesthouse. They recently moved into a mansion. These days you can often spot them sauntering through Mecca Mall and other Amman shopping districts, surrounded by bodyguards. They've been known to make impulse buys, picking up a $30,000 bracelet at a jeweler...
...wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot--visions of the Bush daughter in the limo, her tongue stuck out--a royal pain in the ass. I brood about this...
...pouring that Wednesday, but nothing could dampen the spirits of Beth and her brood. When we asked if by any chance the girls could perform a number, they quickly assumed their places. Allie and Diana conferred ?backstage? as Catherine warmed up the audience of three. When there was a momentary delay, the four-year-old announced, ?We will now have a brief intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity...
...course, Noe has the toughest job, as both servant of an enigmatic, irascible deity and sitcom father to that feuding brood. Maine treats him irreverently, but if he knocks the patriarch down a peg, it's only so that we can re-encounter the hoary Old Testament icon afresh as a sensual, fallible human being and really appreciate his greatness and his sacrifice. The Preservationist reminds us that being God's servant 24/7 is both the ultimate privilege and a hell of a lot of hard work, and Noe is the hardest-working man in the Bible...
...Decibel level of Brood X periodical cicadas, back this summer in the Eastern U.S. after a 17-year absence...