Word: brooding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Progeny of the official presidential family were converging on the altar at such a great rate that L.B.J. threw a White House dinner for the whole brood: Veep Hubert Humphrey's son Robert, 22, and Fiancee Donna Erickson, 21; Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara's daughter Margaret, 24, and Fiance Barry Carter, 24; and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's son Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing...
...extraordinary amount of wiretapping and bugging done by the Government's own agencies; another is headed by Senator Samuel J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, who is chiefly concerned with the intrusion on personal rights posed by psychological testings (sample true-false statements on a common questionnaire: "I brood a great deal. I have never indulged in any unusual sex practices...
...Nelson Jr., 2, as they crossed paths in London's Grosvenor Square. Warren was on the first leg of a trip to Israel to attend the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest near Jerusalem. Happy was keeping busy sightseeing with Nelson Jr. and her brood of four by her first marriage, while she waited for the New York legislature to adjourn so Daddy could join them all on a month-long European vacation...
Under his firm rule, it was from the start an autarchic colony, raising its own vegetarian food supplies, running its private bakery, print shop and greenhouses. For a time, the colony even had its own Siberia, a Lake Michigan island to which backsliders were banished to brood on their sins. Since man was evil, members could marry but were supposed to remain celibate-notwithstanding King Ben's example...
...quail, partridge, pheasant and grouse, all the eggs in a nest tend to hatch at about the same time-even though they were laid several hours apart. The value of the phenomenon seems obvious: it enables the mother bird to leave the nest for food and protect her brood without worrying about any unhatched eggs. But how is the hatching synchronization achieved? No one has known. Now it appears that scientists were simply not listening hard enough to hear the obvious answer...