Word: brood
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...reminding them of all the impressive people and places they have experienced, thanks solely to their relationship to him. While he was hobnobbing with crowned heads and the likes of Chaplin, Cocteau and Jean Renoir, he always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous," or at the very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent homes, there was the doctor who "treats the sons of some of the most important...
...talk-show host, felt compelled to correct the story that David Kennedy was alone in a hotel room 16 years ago when he saw his father's assassination on television. Broughton, then a campaign worker for Senator Kennedy, says that she was babysitting with six of the Kennedy brood that night, including the twelve-year-old David. "He just sat there," Broughton remembers, "and I just got up right next to David and started stroking his hair...
...election year, all First Families are supposed to be happy. The usual rifts and misunderstandings get temporarily buried as the candidate and his brood put on an enviable campaign tableau of old-fashioned togetherness, love and support...
...curse off what is really voyeurism. For a dozen pages or more, the reader sees so closely that he wants to excuse himself, to clear his throat so the figures in the drama will know he is there. Then the curtain closes abruptly, and he is left to brood about why psychological insulation burned through at just such a time and place, with precisely these results...
...taken from the wild, yet she seems to be adjusting well to captivity. Her keeper even has hopes that she will soon be able to produce young of her own. But, he insists, Jia Jia, a giant panda, is only a "guest." If all goes well, she and her brood will be set free...