Word: broodingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are the missile people, high technologists all. Some of them brood with pencil and paper; others contrive tiny instruments of inconceivable delicacy; others work with great rocket motors that shake the earth with their roars. All of them are racing that day when an enemy-made meteor glows like a spark in the sky. Long before that day, the U.S. must have its own deadly "birds" and many other monsters...
...footwork was flawless, and he seemed to glide rather than dart about the court. But his backhand, especially on service returns, was unusually erratic. When he missed some crucial points, Gonzales would plainly brood as Trabert took advantage of every opportunity...
Today's educational program is chiefly concerned, he contends, not with a student's education but with his "adjustment." "Intellectual adjustment begins as required courses for freshmen," Jones explains, where "instructors are hand-picked and, being selected, brood conscientiously over Great Books, The Development of Western Man, Humanism, and other well-meant exercises . . . Meanwhile those who are not average are bored...
...Last week these names made this news: A day after Dwight Eisenhower announced that he is expecting a fourth grandchild around Christmas time, strapping (6 ft. 1 in., 170 Ibs.) Major John Eisenhower, 32, looking startlingly like his father's son, brought out his wife Barbara and their brood-D. (for Dwight) David, 7, Barbara Anne, 6, and Susan, 3 -to meet the press. At his new post at Virginia's Fort Belvoir, Infantry Instructor Eisenhower showed an infantryman's skill in fielding grenadelike questions right back at their tossers. Asked slyly if he expected his Fort...
Milly Vitale dies while Hope is heedlessly off having a soft-shoe competition with Cagney, and the remorseful widower settles down in Westchester to be a daddy to his justifiably indignant brood. But, at tedious length, he is persuaded by his agent to drag all seven of the urchins into vaudeville. They are a smash hit, and one of the boys improves his backstage hours by becoming an expert crapshooter, another a skilled Peeping Tom. And now Writer-Director Melville Shavelson adds a predictable turn of the dramatic screw: Hope's bitter sister-in-law protests to the Society...