Word: brooding
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...were needed, because Mrs. Cirminello was being delivered of quadruplets by Caesarean section under spinal anesthesia-a feat unique in medical history. The operation was done six weeks before the normal birth date because the doctors thought that waiting would endanger the lives both of the mother and her brood. The obstetrician in charge: Dr. John Calvin Ullery of Upper Darby...
...started farming on his own. The Walls rented 80 acres north of Panora (pop. 1,169). With their $300 savings they bought a pair of flap-eared mules, a cookstove, a cream separator and a linoleum square. With $300 more borrowed from the Farmers State Bank they bought two brood sows for $20, and an assortment of antique farm equipment (including a harrow picked...
...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...
...village we came to, St. Laurent, was like the curate's egg-good in spots. There were pleasant little stone houses with courtyards where birds hang in the trees, black and white hens guiding their chicks about and one belated hen setting on a manure pile hatching her brood. With American efficiency we had already supplied these householders with French tricolors to fly and with wall placards reading 'Private Property-Off Limits to Troops...
Spring. In Priest River, Idaho, Farmer J. C. Thomas swore that he saw a bear pick up his 300-lb. brood sow, jump the 4-ft. hog lot fence, and dash off with her into the hills...