Word: brooding
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...follow their profession for any considerable length of time. They tend to be snapped up by sensible young men. A nurse learns to care for other people's pains, instead of spilling out her own problems. She takes to family life like an old hen taking over a brood of chickens. It's no wonder there's a nurse shortage...
Pork on the Highways. McKellar shuffled off to brood over his grouches and, later in the day, to take his turn presiding over the Senate. There, Tennessee's irascible spoilsman encountered another enemy-Paul Douglas of Illinois, who had tried his best, without success, to pry some of the pork out of the same $32.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill. Now Douglas was attacking the pork in a $1.2 billion roads and highways bill...
...days he had persuaded scores of grocers to stock his wares. In the first year he sold $22,000 worth of baby foods. As sales grew, so did Gerber's family (to five children), and as he added new products he tried them out on his own brood...
Most of Sayward's brood are a lusty, hard-working lot. The oldest son marries well and eventually becomes governor of Ohio; one daughter takes a fancy to a red-haired furnaceman, and runs naked in the night to the house of her chosen; another daughter becomes a school teacher. Sayward's son Chancey is the family disappointment; he turns out a priggish reformer and a Copperhead, but he shows up at his mother's deathbed, impressed in spite of himself by her hardy pioneer virtues...
Under the benevolent tyranny of Father Frank Gilbreth, an efficiency expert, the brood motors from Providence, R.I. to its' new home in Montclair, N.J., swarms into school, undergoes a whooping-cough epidemic, a mass tonsillectomy, a visit from a lady apostle of birth control. The oldest daughter (Jeanne Grain) wages a long uphill fight on father's prejudices against hair-bobbing, lipstick and dates with boys. Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies...