Word: broods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometimes the new brood, like the old, wonders who is ahead in the walking. In December 1946 the Rockefeller brothers thought about donating the 3,000-acre family estate near Tarrytown, N.Y. for the site of the permanent headquarters of the U.N. Nelson got on the phone to J.D.R. Jr. The soft-voiced questions came crowding in. "Is this what the United Nations prefers? Is this the ideal location?" "No." "What is?" "New York City, of course." Then Nelson mentioned a possible $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 property beside Manhattan's East River. J.D.R. Jr. asked...
...decide who are the less cultured, the Yanks or the Aussies, the reader may have some fun with the locale: Laragh Station, a sheep "run" operated by the Brothers Regan. They are graduate gunmen of the Irish Republican Army who are busy populating their underpopulated principality with a brood of half-caste children, some named sentimentally for great figures of the Irish Troubles. Overproof Queensland rum is their drink; mutton is their food; and once a year a priest arrives on the scene to christen the new children, and to tell the elders that they are living in mortal...
...feelings of guilt began to be obsessive. She began to hear a noise in her head at night-and she began to brood about killing herself. The family noticed the change in her, and the whispers went around: "We have to watch her very carefully. It's in the family, you know." Norma Jeane knew what they were saying, and sank deeper into her troubles...
...contented hour together through the years with their five fine children, who range in age from 32 to 17. At another cottage in Ancoats, just five miles away along his truck route, William found equal contentment under the name Spencer with Elsie, his second wife, and their happy brood of four children, aged...
...Jungle cannot quite be considered a period piece because it hasn't been left amoulding in the MGM morgue long enough. Its interest lies, rather, as an antecedent to the Dragnet-type thriller. The tender first steps of that animal are unsteady and grouping; but as progenitor of a brood of offspring, its technical effects are interesting to watch in evolution...