Word: brood
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...ambitious Dédé Duvalier Dominique is, in short, the only person any one can remember who has engaged in a battle of wills with Papa Doc and survived. And local bocors (voodoo witch doctors) claim that she, alone among Duvalier's brood, is his "spiritual daughter." Jean-Claude seems certain to wind up wearing the presidential sash, but it seems equally likely that Dédé and Max will run things once the ailing Papa Doc, 63, takes his leave...
...Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge Is Falling Down!), he knows as much about the shops and ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness...
Though most critics gave the dictionary good marks, some argued that the Random House or Merriam-Webster dictionaries were better all-round books. The publishers do not brood over criticisms. Besides, the graduation season will soon begin, and that is one of the best-selling times of the year for the men who market dictionaries...
...more closely to contemporary minds, sensibilities and responses. It is important to note that the playwright, Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus has murdered his father, married his mother, sired an incestuous brood, and his eyes are gouged out. What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh and Giraudoux have done with the Greek myths...
thine, such brood as thine, The future only holds Thee...