Word: broods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, for the benefit of the London Daily Mail Isaac Foot indulged in some reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family...
...University's purpose is to incubate a brood of college politicians, a year in the Union might be an experience to be desired. It is also probably true that a year together in the Yard would develop more "Class spirit"--if anyone at Harvard had such an unlikely trait as "Class spirit...
...reason, more concerned to put his impoverished country on its feet than to stir trouble in the Middle East. But Nasser has increasingly resorted to the incendiary propaganda of the totalitarian dictator, has persistently used his radio Voice of the Arabs to incite the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, who brood in bitter idleness over their lost lands across the border in Israel...
Despite the toll of influenza on the cast, Thomas Teal directed a sensitive and thoughtful production. He shuffled his brood on and off stage rapidly, and brought some comic order out of their wild gestures and earnest accusations. Costumes, lighting, and sets were all excellent...
...October 4, when Russia made her spectacular launching of Sputnik, he and his staff at the Smithsonian have had to concentrate their attention on the activities of Russia's two satellies and hope that the United States will eventually be able to add its offspring to the growing celestial brood...