Word: broods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power was to enable submarines to cruise submerged for long periods out of contact with the air, but the success of the Nautilus convinced doubters in the Navy that nearly all ships would benefit too. Nuclear carriers, needing no fuel oil, can carry twice as much fuel for their brood of airplanes. Their nuclear boilers discharge no combustion gases, so their superstructures will be clear of the enormous ducts that clutter oil-burning carriers. This will leave more space for vital radar and airplane-handling equipment...
After the French armistice, Hitler moved his headquarters to the depths of the Black Forest, there perhaps to brood on his proposals to seize Iceland and settle
...good impression on some of his colleagues and fellow-townsmen by his generosity and good temper, and his mother exclaimed, after the execution, "Yes, they hanged my saintly Billy! He was a bit of a scamp right enough, but a good son to me; the best of the brood, except Sarah, and no murderer...
...being born within a fortnight of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. His father was an ailing French barrister, his mother the daughter of a Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father died soon afterwards, so his family settled in England. Little...
Unexcelled Understanding. That the U.S. has been able to muster up and manage such a huge and sustained military power, and thereby give weight to U.S. diplomacy, is due largely to the happenstance at the right place and the right time of Arthur Radford and his brood of new leaders, battle-tested and thoroughly professional. Their thoughts range freely across the complexities of foreign aid to Iran, say, or the possibilities of interplanetary junketing, just as they keep pace with the fantasies and the donkey work of their jobs. Admiral Radford, a rugged (6 ft. 163 lbs.) man with sharp...