Word: broods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sparkling and earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
...sharpest short game of the circuit, but is less than zealous about practicing with woods and long irons: "putting and chipping are more fun." Casper has weight problems (5 ft. 11 in., 205 Ibs.), stays relaxed on the course by playing swiftly while rivals grow tense as they brood over shots. Casper's accurate, conservative brand of golf last year won him the U.S. Open...
Author Lee had advantages that derived from his disadvantages. His father had deserted his family when Laurie was a baby, and a mother with a brood of six is never a match for an imaginative boy. Besides, he was often sick, and so came in for special treatment: puddings, wood fires in his room, the respect that brothers and sisters feel for a fellow who has been so close to death (pneumonia) that his body was once washed for a funeral. They lived in a tumble-down house in the Cotswolds, but mother and children-at least by Author...