Word: broods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ivory-skinned Japanese girl who forswore the Orient to follow the Count's father to an estate in Bohemia. When her husband died, leaving her with seven children, the amazing Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi proved her Europeanization and her internationalization by administering the family estates and raising her brood as citizens of the "dual" Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs...
...wish Sergeant Isacowitz all the good fortune in the world," declared Staff Sgt. Saul Seigle, expressing the feeling of the entire company. "He's been like a mother hen taking care of a brood of chickens. We're all his boys, and we're all proud...
Sonya, the daughter of a middle-class Siberian gold-mine manager, possessed a bourgeois ambition that even the terrors of the October Revolution could not dampen. Harassed by almost incredible poverty after her husband's death (when Mitya was 16), she brought up her brood of three children with the tenacity of a she-wolf, worked her gnarled fingers to the bone to give them an unusual education despite collectivist hell & high water...
...meet somebody I know on the way and so am forced to put it off." Problem in Selection. Sonya Shostakovich's maternal solicitude for Mitya, who was a frail youth afflicted with tuber ulosis, bordered on mania. "Suppose the ceiling of our house fell in," she would brood. "Whom should one save? Of course Mitya-for this would be the duty of everyone to society-for the sake of art." Sonya even insisted on dragging her friends and relatives into her all-absorbing responsibilities. "If both Mitya and your husband were drowning," she used to ask threateningly of bewildered...
...fabulous $1.3 billion of tools, seven times its 1929 high, ten times its 1919-35 average. This year shipments are off more than 10% from last December's peak; new orders are coming in only half as fast as they did last summer. And the men who really brood point out that much of this new tool production is Government-owned, may be sold for next to nothing after...