Word: brooding
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...corporation's treasure house financed individual political fortunes and augmented the general prosperity. Not until depression and the rise of Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which he was to make the loudest small-town editorial voice of the U.S. When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial...
...over the world hungry men waited. And in the Southwestern wheat belt, U.S. farmers had a new Agriculture Department warning to brood over: another dust bowl was in the making. During the war, too much land had been farmed too hard. Now there was grave danger that retributive weather would blow that land away...
Mother Russia clucked to her long-outcast brood in China. Thousands of White Russians, who have been stateless and scattered from Shanghai to Sinkiang since the Red Revolution, were suddenly offered Soviet citizenship. To return to the maternal wing, they had only to apply at the nearest Russian consulate, pay an 11-ruble fee, submit passport photos, answer a few routine questions...
...solemnly and matter-of-factly at his guitar. He doesn't play as much as he used to, now that he's a bandleader, but he has been around when some of the best jazz has been played. Condon acts as mother hen to as undependable a brood of gifted musicians as James Petrillo has in his roster. Eddie got them together first at Town Hall jazz concerts. They seemed willing to follow him-even when they couldn't follow everything he said in his elliptical, corner-of-the-mouth mutter. Boasts Eddie: "There...
...greatest headache-and heartache-is the frantic haste with which he must fill his jobs. The scene designer has perhaps three days to work out his design, perhaps three weeks to make hundreds of sketches, find dozens of props, discard, replace, assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...